Reservation Plan (concluded)
Lands Purchased Underthe Indian Reorganization Act
The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Indians accepted the provisions of
the Indian Reorganization Act In 1936. Shortly thereafter six ranch
properties and one building site comprising a total of 536.99 acres were
purchased with IRA funds. These ranch properties contained 331 acres of
farm land. Twenty-two assignments were made and managed by the Grand
Ronde Business Committee. These assignments were to provide subsistence
and farming site. In 1956 these lands were still assigned in 22 tracts
with one 70 acres tract not assigned.
PLEASE NOTE!!!
There will be a BAKE SALE held at the annual MEMORIAL DAY GATHERING, MAY
25. The funds raised will go toward our 1986 Pow Wow. Any baked goods
you could bring to the sale would be appreciated. Thank you!
Information on Housing Improvement Program
As you may know, in December of 1985 we submitted a Community Development
Block Grant to the Office of Indian Programs, HUD Region X in Seattle
requesting assistance to supplement our Housing Improvement Program during
the current fiscal year. We received notification recently, however, that
we will not be funded.
Our application was ranked 13th from a field of 30 projects, of which, HUD
was only able to fund 7.
In addition to this information, we learned recently that new housing will
be eliminated completely from the bureau of Indian Affairs Housing
Improvement Program budget for fiscal year 1987; What this means for us
at the tribal level is that Category C down payment grants will not be
available in fiscal year 1987.
We will continue to operate our Housing Improvement Programhowever, our
activities will naturally focus on the two remaining construction
categories, A and B.
We feel that the elimination of new housing from the HIP is part of a
general effort nationally to meet necessary budget reductions. We do not
agree, however, with the elimination of down payment grants as a part of
that effort, as this category has shown to be one of the most cost
effective methods of providing new housing to Indian families.
At this point, we do not anticipate that this situation will change prior
to FY 1987. We intend to make everyeffort to let our concerns be known