Keynote addresses and panel sessions at a conference examining Indian history in the 50 years since the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) are collected in this volume. Part One discusses the Indian New Deal and federal Indian policy from 1933-1945. Part Two deals with 1945-1960 and the federal policy of terminating tribal status. Part Three examines the era of Indian self-determination (1960-1976), and Part Four considers Indian self-rule in the past and future. Each section begins with a keynote address providing an overview of the period which is followed by five panels of two to seven members who provide an oral history by discussing their involvement in specific events of the period. Participants include Indian leaders and activists, past and present federal policy makers, lawyers and other professionals employed by tribes, and scholars. Specific topics include Indian claims settlements, assertion of tribal control over energy-rich resources, the IRA and respect for Indian culture, relocation of reservation people to cities, the War on Poverty, Indian activism and Red Power, traditionalism and the reassertion of Indianness, contracting under the Self-Determination Act, tribal sovereignty, and the trust obligation. An 11-page bibliography, an index, and a list of contributors with their affiliations are appended. (JHZ)