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3. Provided for elected tribal councils with significant powers. This represented a reversal from previous policy and the restoration of tribal power. | 3. Provided for elected tribal councils with significant powers. This represented a reversal from previous policy and the restoration of tribal power. | ||
=== 1946 - ''Indian Claims Commission Act'' === | === 1946 - ''Indian Claims Commission Act'' === | ||
This act provided a means for Indian Tribes to file claims against the federal government. The intent was to allow a five-year window of time for this type of claim. At the conclusion of that time, the tribes would | This act provided a means for Indian Tribes to file claims against the federal government. The intent was to allow a five-year window of time for this type of claim. At the conclusion of that time, the tribes would give up their right to bring up that grievance again. | ||
Such claims might have included for alleged wrongs suffered between the time of the Revolution and 1946. In most cases, individual tribal members receiving any of the awarded judgments would have been required to prove their relationship to a member of the tribe alive at the time of the event which was the cause of the claim. | |||
The Commission was adjourned in 1978 by Public Law 94-465, which terminated the Commission and transferred its pending docket of 170 cases to the United States Court of Claims on September 30, 1978. By the time of the Commission's final report, it had awarded $818,172,606.64 in judgments and had completed 546 dockets. | |||
=== 1953 - Termination Policy, formalized by ''House Concurrent Resolution 108'' === | === 1953 - Termination Policy, formalized by ''House Concurrent Resolution 108'' === | ||