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History and Proposed Settlement Claims of California Indians (1944) (35 pages)
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48 HISTORY AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT
-. Such a computation would require no legislation but
would be worked out mathematically as explained above, and
if the sum so arrived at was appropriated by the Congress it
would be placed in the Treasury with the amount already
deposited therein pursuant to the decree under the Jurisdictional Act, and the entire amount would then become available for appropriation in accordance with the desires of the
Congress for the benefit of all of the Indians of California as
defined in the Act.
4, On the most conservative assumption that the nontreaty Indians were equal in number to the treaty Indians, the
total award computed on the basis above outlined would be
the sum of the two figures, $5,165,863.46 and $17,816,624.48,
or $22,982,487.94, which would represent approximately
$1,000 for every man, woman and child now entitled to share
in the award, if a per capita distribution of the award had been
authorized.
It is significant that this figure corresponds closely with
the amount suggested by the Secretary of the Interior in his
report to Congress where, after discussing the problem of the
rehabilitation of the Indians of California, he said:
“From the above, it would follow, in my judgment, that
a.net recovery of $20,000,000, in behalf of the 23,000 surviving California Indians would be by no means excessive,
but on the contrary, would be justified in the long run not
merely by historical sentiment and moral conscience, but
by practical savings to the Federal, State and local governments. I believe that an even larger net recovery might
reasonably be argued for.” (Italics ours.) *°
§. The procedure to bring about a final and complete settlement of the claims of the Indians of California, as referred
to in the Jurisdictional Act, would be simple and direct. All
that would be necessary would be to introduce in Congress a
bill to appropriate in further settlement of said claims a sum
* California Indians Jurisdictional Act. Hearings before the Committee on Indian
Affairs, House of Representatives, 75th Congress, First Sess. on S. 1651, August 10, 1937
(p. 43).
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