Form 3347
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TERMINATION
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CHILOQUIN, OREGON
VOL 6 NO. 7
KLAMATH INFORMATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM
JULY-AUGUST 1961
Superintendent Mincar
Confident Tribe
Will Meet Challenges
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To members oT the
Klamath Indian Tribe
Six years ago, the Oregon State
Department of Education ac
cepted the responsibility of con
ducting a broad education pro
gram to help the Klamath Indian
tribe prepare for the termination
of federal supervision.
The contract under which the
state agreed to assume this re
sponsibility was signed for the
state by former Supcrintcndant
of Public Instruction, Rex Put
nam. On March 13, 1955, the
special Klamath Education Pro
gram was initiated and an office
was established in Chilo(juin on
the Klamath reservation. During
the years that followed, we saw
some two hundred fifty-eight
Indian students take advantage
of the educational opportunity
that was presented to them, and
although many students did not
complete their courses, we trust
that all of them benefitted in
some measure from their educa
tional experience.
We know that the Klamath
Indian tribe through its many
years of reservation history has
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Secretary Of The Interior Issues Proclamation
TERMINATION COMPLETED
TERMINATION OF THE FEDERAL TRUST RELA
TIONSHIP TO THE PROPERTY OF THE KLAMATH
TRIBE OF INDIANS LOCATED IN THE STATE OF
OREGON, AND OF FEDERAL SUPERVISION OVER
THE AFFAIRS OF THE INDIVIDUAL MEMHERS
THEREOF.
BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR OF
THE UNITED STATES
A PROCLAMATION '
Pursuant to the authority vested in me by Section 18(a)
of the Act of August 13, 1954 (68 Stat. 718 ; U.S.C. 564 (2) ,
as amended, I, James K. Carr, Acting. Secretary of the
Interior, do hereby proclaim that:
1.
The Federal restrictions over the property of the Klam
ath Indian Tribe of Oregon- and individual members
thereof having been removed, the Federal trust relation
ship to the affairs of the Tribe and its members is termin
ated effective August 13, 1961.
2.
Hereafter, individual members of the Tribe shall not be
entitled to any of the services performed by the United
States for Indians because of their status as Indians and,
except as otherwise provided in the Act of August 13, 1954,
Supra, all statutes of the United States which affect Indians
because of their status as Indians shall not longer be ap
plicable to members of the Tribe and the laws of the
several states shall apply to the Tribe and its members in
the same manner as they apply to other citizens or persons
within their jurisdiction.
3.
Nothing in this proclamation shall affect the status of
members of the Klamath Tribe as citizens of the United
States.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF: I have hereunto subscribed
my name and caused the seal of the Department of the
Interior to be affixed this 10th day of August, 1961,
(Signed) Acting Secretary of the Interior
Governor Commends
Tribo Sends Best Wishes
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'I'm the Klamath Indian People:
With the signing of the Procla
mation by the Secretary of the
Interior, the Federal Government
terminates its supervision over
the Klamath Indian Tribe, thus
bringing to a close a hundred
years of Reservation history.
It may fill many of you with
a feeling of sadness and nostalgia
to see the reservation come to an
end but a wonderful history has
yet to be written for you ami
your children.
Whether you elected to remain
in the tribe or elected to with
draw, all of you, as members of
the Klamath Tribe were fortunate
in receiving a legacy left by your
ancestors. The wav in which you
conducted yourselves after you
received your termination pay
ments was a clear demonstration
to the rest of the world how cap
able most of you arc of taking
your place in society.
We know that the past six
years the terminal years were
difficult ones wrought with con
fusion and anxiety. Our Oregon
State Department of Kducation,
through the Klamath Indian Kd
ucation Program endeavored to
help you through that difficult
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