Choctaw Self-Determination: Response to S. 10171978-05-03unknownhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/enghttp://congressarchives.org/record/CAC_CC_003_2_33_10_0018The document is a series of two telegrams from the Tribal Chairman of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians to the Honorable Henry M. Jackson regarding the Indian Self-Determination and Educational Reform Act. The Chairman stresses the importance of passing the Indian Self-Determination Act in its present form and developing a stronger bill for Indian education. He requests that the bill be separated into two parts and that a hearing be scheduled for representatives from Indian tribes to testify on the merits of the bill.