The Bureau of Indian Affairs Needs To Determine How Well Its Indian Training Program Is Working and Assist Tribes in Their Training Efforts

The Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) Indian Action Team program was designed to train Indian people living on reservations for employment and provided a new approach, calling for Indian self-determination, as an alternative to the past policy of terminating services to Indian tribes as promptly as possible. Through the Indian Technical Assistance Center, BIA awarded contracts to tribal groups to provide marketable training skills to Indian people. Total funding for the program through fiscal year 1978 has been $85.5 million.