Page 1 of 19 Guide to the Rhode Island Commission for Indian Affairs records 1977-1986 337 Westminster Street Providence, RI 02903 Tel: 401-222-2353 Fax: 401-222-3199 email: statearchives@sos.ri.gov Published in 2009
Page 2 of 19 Collection overview Title: Rhode Island Commission for Indian Affairs records Date range: 1977-1986 Creator: Extent: Abstract: Language of materials: Repository: Rhode Island Commission for Indian Affairs 3.6 cubic feet other The Rhode Island Commission for Indian Affairs records contains information on the commission's efforts to investigate problems common to persons of American Indian heritage in Rhode Island. English Collection number: 1996-68 Scope & content The records of the Commission are primarily arranged by subject and include correspondence, annual reports, by-laws, meeting minutes, reference files, and documentation on activities with various federal and state agencies including The Bureau of Indian Affairs, The Rhode Island Indian Council (proposals and grants), and The Narragansett Tribe (needs assessment questionnaires, land claim settlement). Other records relate to various projects including the Narragansett Tribal Education Project, the South County Project, and the establishment of the Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum. Arrangement Folders are arranged alphabetically by subject. Items are arranged into the following series: Series 1. Subject Files, 1977-1986
Page 3 of 19 Historical note The Rhode Island Commission for Indian Affairs was created per Executive Order No. 39, December 7, 1976 within the Department of Community Affairs. Per Public Law 1985 Chapter 181 the Department of Community Affairs was disbanded and the Commission for Indian Affairs came under the jurisdiction of the Department of Human Services. The Commission disbanded as of July 1, 1987, but was officially abolished in 1995 per the Governor s Executive Order (95-8) Abolition of Certain Executive Boards and Commissions. The Commission's purpose was to investigate problems common to persons of American Indian heritage who are residents of this State, both urban and rural. The Commission also provided assistance to Indian organizations and individuals in their dealings with agencies of federal, state, and local government and gaining access to social services, education, employment opportunities, health, housing, civil rights, and other services and programs and their funding. Access & use Access to the collection: Use of materials: Preferred citation: Contact information: There are no restrictions on access. Researchers are advised that express written permission to reproduce, quote, or otherwise publish any portion or extract from this collection must be obtained from the. Although the Rhode Island State Archives has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them. Rhode Island Commission for Indian Affairs records, 1996-68, 337 Westminster Street Providence, RI 02903 Tel: 401-222-2353 Fax: 401-222-3199 email: statearchives@sos.ri.gov
Page 4 of 19 Administrative information About the collection Aquisition: Transferred from Rhode Island Commission for Indian Affairs in 1996. About the finding aid Author: Finding aid prepared by Kate Telford. Encoding: Finding aid encoded by Kate Telford 2009 March 18 Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) Search terms Names: Subjects: Rhode Island. Coastal Resources Management Council Connecticut Indian Affairs Council Council of Energy Resource Tribes Governors' Interstate Indian Council National Tribal Chairmen's Association National Congress of American Indians Nebraska Indian Commission New Mexico. Indian Affairs, Office of North American Indian Museums Association North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission Rhode Island Indian Cooperative Rhode Island Indian Council Roger Williams Park Museum Indian Education Act/Resource and Evaluation Center II Narragansett Indians Narragansett Indians--Government relations. Narragansett Indians--Rhode Island--Social life and customs. Native Americans
Page 5 of 19 Types of materials: annual reports correspondence memorandums minutes reports
Page 6 of 19 Inventory Series 1, Subject Files, 1977-1986 Box 1-3 Container Description Date 1 Acts (Local and Private Nature; Acts of Incorporation: United Electric Power Company 1926 2 Agendas, Commission Meetings 1977-1981 3 Agendas, Commission Meetings 1982 4 Agendas, Commission Meetings 1983 5 6 Agriculture, Department of, (Native American Programs) American Friends Service Committee: FY 1980, Budget Requests for Indians 1977-1978 1979-1980 7 Annual Report 1977 8 Annual Report 1978 9 Annual Report 1979 10 11 12 13 Annual Report 1980 Annual Report 1981 Annual Report 1982 Annual Report 1984
Page 7 of 19 14 15 16 Apache Liquor Ordinances: Federal Register, Department of the Interior Archaeological Dig, Massachusetts Public Laws: Ch. 713, An Act Relative to the Interment of Certain Persons; Chapter 659, An Act Relative to Certain Skeletal Remains Block Grant information: Health and Human Services 1983 1982 17 Block Grant information: Memorandum 1981 18 19 20 21 22 23 Bureau of Indian Affairs By-Laws, Commission By-Laws, Commission (Model Form) By-Laws and Executive Order, Commission Canada: Rights of North American Indians born in Canada Census data: Narragansetts Tribal List, 1881, Report of Commission on Narragansett Indians; Superior Court, C.A. No. 80-227, Narragansett Tribe of Indians, Narragansett Tribal Education Project, Inc., Rosalind Shumate, Harold Champlin, Harry M. Johnson Sr., Mark F. Dove, Roland C. Mars, Ferris B. Dove vs. Eric 1976 and 1978 1976-1978, 1983 1978 1774
Page 8 of 19 24 25 Thomas, Walter K. Babcock, George Herbert Hopkins, Ethel "Sis" Brown, Nancy Padrone, Helen Stanton, Hiawatha Brown, Keith Brown, Ella Thomas/Sekatau, and Mary Stanton Brown; Subject Report American Indians of New England Region by county, American Indian Census and Statistical Data Project, by Jim Red Corn, 1970 census Coastal Resources Management Council: Notice, 1985, Ninigret Pond project Coastal Resources Management Council: Notice, 1985, Ninigret Pond project Colorado Commission 1985 26 Commission Achievements 1983 27 28 29 30 31 Commission Achievements: Commission Achievements: Commission Achievements: Commission Achievements: Commission Consultant Workshops, Paula D. Jennings 1976-1978 1979-1980 1981-1982 1983-1984 1981
Page 9 of 19 32 Commission Profiles, Commissioner Work Book 1980 33 34 Commission - State Indian List 1981 Commissioners - 1981-1982 35 Commissioners, Miscellaneous: List of Commissioners, term expiration; corres., executive orders 1976 36 Community Affairs 1982 37 Community Relations Task Force/ Gerontology 1980 38 Connecticut Indian Affairs Council 1978-1983 39 40 Council of Energy Resource Tribes, CERT CSA Tribes: Constitution and By-Laws of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians as amended July, 1981 1981 1981 41 "Definition of an Indian" 1980 42 Director's Memos -Nancy V. Bordeleau file 1985-1986 43 Director's Memos - Paulla D. Jennings 1982
Page 10 of 19 44 Education, Department of 1981-1984 45 46 Eight Northern Pueblos Employment Assistance Contract Emergency Energy Assistance Program 1977 1979-1982 47 Energy 1981-1982 48 49 50 51 Energy Assistance Program- Preliminary Draft Environmental Management, Dept. of Executive Order No. 39, 1976; Federal Agency Review: United Sates Department of Agriculture Report 1981 1981 1981 52 Federal Agriculture/Agencies 1978-1981 53 54 55 56 Federal Indian Services; Policy Resolution # 1,Treaties and Trust Responsibilities Federal Regional Council of New England, Executive Order, Goals, OBJ Federal Regional Council of New England, Indian Task Force Federal Regional Council of New England, Indian Task Force 1976 1981-1982 1983
Page 11 of 19 57 Film Collaborative/Dennis Mahoney 1982 58 59 60 Fiscal Reports, Tribal and Council, Rhode Island Indian Council, Inc. Genealogy, Individual History Chart: Paula Dove Jennings (Completed Forms) General Laws (Title 28, Ch. 294, 1909 and Ch. 250) relating to Indian Meeting House 1979-1980 1979 61 Governor's Office 1978-1982 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Governors' Interstate Indian Council (GIIC) Grant Application Requests, Funds for Longhouse Completion Hazard School - Black and N. American Cultures/Carol Grandin Home Energy Assistance Program, Preliminary Draft Housing and Urban Development, Dept. of Hunting and Fishing Legislation (Montana et. al., vs. United States et at) Indian Child Welfare Act-(National Indian Child Conference) 1976-1981 1977 1982 1981-1982 1979-1980 1981 8 Indian Economic Development
Page 12 of 19 9 Indian Education Act 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Indian Federal Food Programs Indian Health Service Indian Housing Indian Religious Freedom Act/Grave Sites Indian Testimony - Select Committee on Indian Affairs - relating to Indian Council) Indian Water Rights Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - pertaining to Narragansett Tribal Education Project Inc. Jojola, Stephen, resident of Isleta Pueblo Reservation, New Mexico, file of Kingstown Village - Historic District Maine - Department of Indian Affairs Maryland Commission on Indian Affairs 1981
Page 13 of 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Mashpee-Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs Media Project Grant - Harold Champlin Michigan Indian Affairs Commission Monthly Reports, Commission for Indian Affairs Monthly Reports, Commission for Indian Affairs Monthly Reports, Commission for Indian Affairs Narragansett - Land Claim - Narragansett - list of events and council member lists 1977-1980 1981-1982 1983 30 31 Narragansett - Membership Roll 1979 Narragansett - Tribal Recognition 1983 32 33 Narragansett - Tribal List Narragansett By-Laws
Page 14 of 19 34 35 36-37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 Narragansett Concerned Citizens Committee Narragansett Electric Company - Archeological - Cooperative Agreement Narragansett Land Claim Narragansett Land Claim- Narragansett Land Management Corporation Narragansett Tribal Council Narragansett Tribal Council Membership Roll - Mailing Lists Narragansett Tribal Council [Annual] August Meeting Materials Narragansett Tribal Council-Senate Resolutions, Petition for Federal Recognition and Biennial Report Narragansett Tribal Education Project Inc. Narragansett Tribal Education Project Inc. - Proposals Narragansett Tribal Education Project Inc. - Narragansett Tribalal Legislation 1980
Page 15 of 19 48 Narragansett Tribe - Federal Acknowledgement 1983 49 Narragansett Tribe - HEAP 1983-1984 50 51 52 53 Narragansett Tribe - Longhouse Proposal - "Top" National Congress of American Indians Convention - American Indians and Alaska Natives National Tribal Chairmen's Association - Denver Institute Native American Equal Opportunity Act 54 Native American Programs 1982 1 Nebraska Indian Affairs 2 New England Power (Nuclear Plant) - 3 New Mexico Indian Affairs Office 4 5 6 7 North American Indian Museums Association (NAIMA) North Carolina Indian Affairs Commission North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission (OIAC)
Page 16 of 19 8 9 10 11 12 Personnel Records - Statement of Duties Procurement Under Buy Indian Act: Federal Register and Public Law 95-608, An act to Establish Standards for the placement of Indian children in foster or adoptive homes, to prevent the breakup of Indian families, and for other purposes Public Parks (Department of) - Reference Listing of New England Indian Representatives Revenue Sharing, Office of (U.S.Treasury Department) 1978 1983 13 Rhode Island Block Grants 1981-1982 14 15 16 17 18 Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission Rhode Island Indian Cooperative (RIIC) and Weatherization Program Rhode Island Indian Cooperative (RIIC) Rhode Island Indian Cooperative Inc. Firewood Project Rhode Island Indian Council - Community Development Corporation (CDC) 1982
Page 17 of 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 Rhode Island Indian Council - relative to grant monies and wood project Rhode Island Indian Council - Grants Rhode Island Indian Council Inc. Rhode Island Indian Council Inc. - (Indian Deaths in Rhode Island Report) Rhode Island Indian Council Inc. Cooperative - Corporation Papers and By-Laws Rhode Island Indian Council Inc. Cooperative - 1968/1978 25 26 Rhode Island Indian Council Proposals 1983 Rhode Island Indian Council Proposals 1982 27 28 29 30 Rhode Island Indian Council, Inc. (Wood Co-op Mailing List) Rhode Island Indian Council, Inc. Emergency Crisis Intervention Program Rhode Island Legislation Roger Williams Park - NEH Self Study Planning Grant - Narrative Report of Accomplishment 1983
Page 18 of 19 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Roger Williams Park Museum Roger Williams Park Museum - South County Project - South County Project - Semi Annual Performance Report, Folklife Project, Draft Proposal to NEH South County Project Grant - Narrative Report of Accomplishment State Boards and Commissions (Biographical Information) State Indian Commisions, Governors' Representatives and/or contact persons in Indian Affairs 1983 38 Tomaquag Indian Museum - Proposal 1986 39 40 41 42 United States Senate - Committee on Indian Affairs - bill copies University of Rhode Island PowWow - programs, meeting minutes, correspondence University of Rhode Island PowWow - programs,correspondence, newsletters, financial rpt (copy) Utilities - Narragansett Electric - Indian Burial Sites 1981 1980
Page 19 of 19 43 Workshop Meeting for Indian Commissioners - Outline and notes 1980