UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS Statement of John O. Crow, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs; accompanied Purl Willis, El Cajon, Calif DATA SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD House Concurrent Resolution 108, 83d Congress... Interior Department: Correspondence with Office of the Solicitor dated July 8, July 19, and Data regarding California relocation centers. Data regarding number of employees in Sacramento area office_ Letter of October 31, 1961, regarding operations of the Bureau of Letter of March 14, 1962, regarding payment of expenses incurred by Letter of May 16, 1963, regarding operations of the Bureau of Indian Page 5 24 15 41 6 16 6 1 40 4 Facing 43 32 Maps relating to California Indians submitted by Legislative Reference Purl Willis, supplemental statement_ APPENDIXES I. Bureau of Indian Affairs, California report, September 12, 1952.- 43 186 187 187 IV. Public Law 85-671. V. Chronological bibliography of selected reports on California Indians.. 190 195 III REVIEW OF CALIFORNIA INDIAN AFFAIRS FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1963 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:45 a.m., in the committee room, Longworth Building, Hon. James A. Haley (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. HALEY. The Subcommittee on Indian Affairs will be in order. We have today members of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to discuss particularly the Bureau of Indian Affairs activities in the Sacramento, Calif., area office. I call the attention of the members of the subcommittee to hearings held on March 4 and 5, 1954. It is a document entitled "Termination of Federal Supervision Over Certain Tribes of Indians." I call the subcommittee's attention to pages 372, 373, 374, and 375, which pertain to this particular subject. I am asking the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress to prepare two maps for committee use. The first will indicate the Indian reservations of California today. The second will show the original distribution of Indians in California by stocks and tribes. (Maps face p. 43.) It is my understanding that--I will ask the attorney for the committee to correct me if I am wrong-in approximately 1936 the State of California assumed many of the duties, if not all, or were willing to assume, supervision over the Indian tribes of California. While we have no legislation before us at the moment dealing with this, undoubtedly the Bureau has explanations which you will hear later. What I would like to find out is why we continue to spend a considerable sum of money on the operation of this particular part of the Indian program. I received a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, dated October 31, 1961. This bears somewhat on it. Also two tables showing the expenditures in this particular area. Without objection, that letter and the tables will be made a part of the record at this point in the proceedings. (The letter referred to follows:) Hon. JAMES A. HALEY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, Chairman, Subcommittee on Indian Affairs, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C'. DEAR MR. HALEY: In your letter of September 29 you ask for a breakdown of the monetary and service responsibilities of our operations in California. We are pleased to furnish you with this information. The enclosed statement of appro 1 Pt. 5. 2d sess. California Indians. Mar. 4, and 5, 1954, Joint Hearings on S. 2749 and H.R. 7322, 83d Cong., |