CULTURE AND ART-PART 2 HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 2166 TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE AND ART JULY 29, 1980 WASHINGTON, D.C. Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs 68-893 O UNIV U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE CPOSITORY WASHINGTON: 1980 Abeyta, Joe, superintendent, Santa Fe/Albuquerque Indian School... Conable, Hon. Barber B., Jr., a Representative in Congress from New Deloria, Vine, Jr., University of Arizona, prepared statement_ Duffey, Joseph, chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, pre- Folk-Williams, John A., executive director, the Nations Project, prepared Jackson, Emerson, international president, Native American Church of Kiva New, Lloyd, Indian educator, prepared statement. Knuffke, Darrell, Deputy Under Secretary, Department of the Interior__ Lovato, Delfin, first vice president, National Congress of American Indians. Lucero, Alvino, Governor, Isleta Pueblo McKenzie, Floretta, Deputy Assistant Secretary for School Improvement, Pena, Gilbert M., Governor, Nambe Pueblo Prepared statement.. Robinson, Rose, vice president and director of American Indian programs, 102 Star, Benny, Santo Domingo Pueblo.. Toribio, Casper, Governor, Zia Pueblo... Prepared statement.. Yates, Herbert, education committee, Nambe Pueblo. STATEMENT AND CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED SUBSEQUENT TO THE 108 HEARING Force, Roland W., director, Musuem of the American Indian, questions and answers 85 Gunn, Virgil, chairman, Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare, 137 Letters to Senator Melcher from: Biddle, Livingston L., Jr., chairman, National Endowment for the 138 Furois, Sister Therese Marie, OSB, St. Martin's Priory, Rapid City, 142 Hughes, Phillip S., acting secretary, Smithsonian Institution....... 139 144 Marohm, Rev. Donald, St. Ann's Church, Belcourt, N. Dak. 143 145 DEVELOPMENT OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE AND ART-PART 2 JULY 29, 1980 U.S. SENATE, SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:05 a.m., in room 6226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator John Melcher (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senator Melcher and Representative Conable. Staff present: Max Richtman, staff director; and Susan Long, professional staff member. Senator MELCHER. The committee will come to order. Today the committee is continuing hearings on S. 2166 to provide for the development of native American culture and art. On April 14 of this year, the committee held a hearing on the bill in Santa Fe, N. Mex., at which time testimony was taken from tribal witnesses throughout Indian country with a particular emphasis on Pueblo witnesses. The focus of today's hearing will be on testimony from the administration as well as other predominantly Washington, D.C.-based witnesses. At the committee's Santa Fe hearing, many indecisive suggestions were made on how this legislation could be improved; the committee intends to explore some of those suggested changes today to assist us in refining the bill. At the outset, I would like to make the following observations. The purpose of S. 2166 was never to provide a vehicle for settling the politically disputed situation in New Mexico, although the committee's final product may do so. Rather, the bill was and is intended to establish a national institute which will serve the entire Indian community and the country by creating a focal point for the recognition of Indian art and culture. Current Federal initiatives in the area of Indian art and culture are fragmented and inadequate. This legislation expresses the importance of a comprehensive recognition of the cultural welfare of Indian people as well as a need for a strong Federal commitment to the preservation, revitalization, and dissemination of Indian art and culture. S. 2166 not only combines the function of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N. Mex., and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, but creates a new National Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development which includes: No. 1, a center for culture |