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[CITE: 25USC2502]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
              CHAPTER 27--TRIBALLY CONTROLLED SCHOOL GRANTS
 
Sec. 2502. Declaration of policy


(a) Recognition

    The Congress recognizes the obligation of the United States to 
respond to the strong expression of the Indian people for self-
determination by assuring maximum Indian participation in the direction 
of educational services so as to render such services more responsive to 
the needs and desires of those communities.

(b) Commitment

    The Congress declares its commitment to the maintenance of the 
Federal Government's unique and continuing trust relationship with and 
responsibility to the Indian people through the establishment of a 
meaningful Indian self-determination policy for education which will 
deter further perpetuation of Federal bureaucratic domination of 
programs.

(c) National goal

    The Congress declares that a major national goal of the United 
States is to provide the resources, processes, and structures which will 
enable tribes and local communities to effect the quantity and quality 
of educational services and opportunities which will permit Indian 
children to compete and excel in the life areas of their choice, and to 
achieve the measure of self-determination essential to their social and 
economic well-being.

(d) Educational needs

    The Congress affirms the reality of the special and unique 
educational needs of Indian peoples, including the need for programs to 
meet the linguistic and cultural aspirations of Indian tribes and 
communities. These may best be met through a grant process.

(e) Federal relations

    The Congress declares its commitment to these policies and its 
support, to the full extent of its responsibility, for Federal relations 
with the Indian Nations.

(f) Termination

    The Congress hereby repudiates and rejects House Concurrent 
Resolution 108 of the 83rd Congress and any policy of unilateral 
termination of Federal relations with any Indian Nation.

(Pub. L. 100-297, title V, Sec. 5203, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 385.)

                       References in Text

    House Concurrent Resolution 108 of the 83rd Congress, referred to in 
subsec. (f), is H. Con. Res. 108, Eighty-third Congress, Aug. 1, 1953, 
67 Stat. B132, which is not classified to the Code.
