[Senate Hearing 112-416]
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                                                        S. Hrg. 112-416
 
 THE CARCIERI CRISIS: THE RIPPLE EFFECT ON JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 
                  AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN INDIAN COUNTRY

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                                HEARING

                               before the

                      COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS
                          UNITED STATES SENATE

                      ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS

                             FIRST SESSION

                               __________

                            OCTOBER 13, 2011

                               __________

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                      COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS

                   DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii, Chairman
                 JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming, Vice Chairman
DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii             JOHN McCAIN, Arizona
KENT CONRAD, North Dakota            LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska
TIM JOHNSON, South Dakota            JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota
MARIA CANTWELL, Washington           MIKE CRAPO, Idaho
JON TESTER, Montana                  MIKE JOHANNS, Nebraska
TOM UDALL, New Mexico
AL FRANKEN, Minnesota
      Loretta A. Tuell, Majority Staff Director and Chief Counsel
     David A. Mullon Jr., Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel


                            C O N T E N T S

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Hearing held on October 13, 2011.................................     1
Statement of Senator Akaka,......................................     1
Statement of Senator Barrasso....................................     2
    Prepared statement...........................................     2
Statement of Senator Johnson.....................................     2

                               Witnesses

Artman, Carl J., Professor of Practice, Director, Economic 
  Development in Indian Country Program, Arizona State University 
  Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.............................    39
    Prepared statement...........................................    41
Cole, Hon. Tom, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma................     3
    Prepared statement...........................................     5
Echo Hawk, Hon. Larry, Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs, U.S. 
  Department of the Interior; accompanied by Donald Laverdure, 
  Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs, and Jodi 
  Gillette, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy and Economic 
  Development....................................................     6
    Prepared statement...........................................     8
Guest, Richard, Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund......    17
    Prepared statement with attachments..........................    18
Lomax, William, President, Native American Finance Officers 
  Association....................................................    36
    Prepared statement...........................................    38
Routel, Colette, Assistant Professor, William Mitchell College of 
  Law............................................................    30
    Prepared statement...........................................    31

                                Appendix

Inouye, Hon. Daniel K., U.S. Senator from Hawaii, prepared 
  statement......................................................    51
Iyall, Hon. William, Chairman, Cowlitz Indian Tribe, prepared 
  statement......................................................    62
McIntosh, Paul, Executive Director, California State Association 
  of Counties, prepared statement with attachment................    51


 THE CARCIERI CRISIS: THE RIPPLE EFFECT ON JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 
                  AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN INDIAN COUNTRY

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                       THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011


                                       U.S. Senate,
                               Committee on Indian Affairs,
                                                    Washington, DC.
    The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:40 p.m. in room 
628, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Akaka, 
Chairman of the Committee, presiding.

          OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. AKAKA, 
                    U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAII


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