
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 5, 1990                   TAG: 9007050155
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: OKLAHOMA CITY                                LENGTH: Short

TRIBE ACCEPTS DIRECT CONTROL OF FEDERAL FUNDS

Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller has signed an unprecedented agreement in which the Bureau of Indian Affairs will give the tribe direct control over millions of dollars in federal funding.

"Through self-governance, we can better determine the services needed by tribal members and fulfill those needs without the bureaucratic delays of the past," Mankiller said in a statement from Boston, where she is recuperating from a kidney transplant.

Three-year agreements announced Tuesday also cover four smaller Indian tribes. They are the Quinalt Indian Nation, of Taholah, Wash.; the Lummi Indian Nation, of Bellingham, Wash.; the Jamestown Klallam Indian Tribe, of Sequim, Wash.; and the Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe, of Hoopa, Calif.

A 1988 law allows 20 tribes to participate in agreements to control their own funds with minimal federal interference.

- Associated Press

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