**(a) Sense of Congress** It is the sense of Congress that the absence of locally convenient day schools may contribute to the breakup of Indian families.
**(b) Report to Congress; contents, etc.** The Secretary is authorized and directed to prepare, in consultation with appropriate agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services, a report on the feasibility of providing Indian children with schools located near their homes, and to submit such report to the Select Committee on Indian Affairs of the United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives within two years from November 8, 1978. In developing this report the Secretary shall give particular consideration to the provision of educational facilities for children in the elementary grades.
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**(a) Sense of Congress** It is the sense of Congress that the absence of locally convenient day schools may contribute to the breakup of Indian families.
**(b) Report to Congress; contents, etc.** The Secretary is authorized and directed to prepare, in consultation with appropriate agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services, a report on the feasibility of providing Indian children with schools located near their homes, and to submit such report to the Select Committee on Indian Affairs of the United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives within two years from November 8, 1978. In developing this report the Secretary shall give particular consideration to the provision of educational facilities for children in the elementary grades.
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§ 1901. Congressional findings
Recognizing the special relationship between
the United States and the Indian tribes and
their members and the Federal responsibility to
Indian people, the Congress finds—
(1) that clause 3, section 8, article I of the
United States Constitution provides that ‘‘The
Congress shall have Power * * * To regulate
Commerce * * * with Indian tribes 1’’ and,
through this and other constitutional author-
ity, Congress has plenary power over Indian
affairs;
(2) that Congress, through statutes, treaties,
and the general course of dealing with Indian
tribes, has assumed the responsibility for the
protection and preservation of Indian tribes
and their resources;
(3) that there is no resource that is more
vital to the continued existence and integrity
of Indian tribes than their children and that
the United States has a direct interest, as
trustee, in protecting Indian children who are
members of or are eligible for membership in
an Indian tribe;
(4) that an alarmingly high percentage of In-
dian families are broken up by the removal,
often unwarranted, of their children from
them by nontribal public and private agencies
and that an alarmingly high percentage of
such children are placed in non-Indian foster
and adoptive homes and institutions; and
(5) that the States, exercising their recog-
nized jurisdiction over Indian child custody
proceedings through administrative and judi-
cial bodies, have often failed to recognize the
essential tribal relations of Indian people and
the cultural and social standards prevailing in
Indian communities and families.
(Pub. L. 95–608, § 2, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3069.)
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Pub. L. 95–608, § 1, Nov. 8, 1987, 92 Stat. 3069, provided:
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