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ND HCR3017
Concurrent Resolution
Status
1/26/2017
Primary Sponsor
Keith Kempenich
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AI Summary
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Urges Congress to transfer authority over Indian reservation management from the federal government to individual states, allowing states to engage directly with Native American tribes.
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Requests states develop plans to improve conditions on Indian reservations, including advancing quality of life, increasing literacy rates, and promoting economic stability and independence.
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Cites the current reservation system as flawed and obsolete, noting that reservations remain among the poorest communities in the United States despite the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act and 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act.
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Identifies high rates of poverty, unemployment, youth suicide, inadequate health care, and poor housing conditions as persistent problems in Native American communities.
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Requires the North Dakota Secretary of State to forward copies of the resolution to the U.S. Department of the Interior and all members of the North Dakota Congressional Delegation.
Legislative Description
A concurrent resolution urging Congress to modify the Indian reservation system by vesting the states with the ability to engage in relations with Native American tribes and with the responsibility of developing plans to improve the failed Indian reservation system, advance and elevate the quality of life on Indian reservations, promote and increase literacy on Indian reservations, and help Indian reservations to achieve economic stability and independence.
Last Action
Withdrawn from further consideration
1/30/2017