Legislative Branch Documents

The public laws that designated a time period to honor National American Indian Heritage are available in the United States Statutes at Large, which is widely available online through Congress.gov, the Government Publishing Office (GPO), and federal depository libraries. The citations and links to the laws are here:

Pub. L. No. 99-471, 100 Stat. 1199
Requesting the President to proclaim the week of November 23 to November 30, 1986, as American Indian Week.
Pub. L. No. 100-171, 101 Stat. 915
Designating November 22-28, 1987, as American Indian Week.
Pub. L. No. 100-450, 102 Stat. 1899
Designating the week of September 23-30, 1988, as National American Indian Heritage Week.
Pub. L. No. 101-188, 103 Stat. 1351
Designating the week of December 3-9, 1989, as National American Indian Heritage Week.
Pub. L. No. 101-343, 104 Stat. 391
Designating the month of November 1990 as National American Indian Heritage Month.
Pub. L. No. 102-123, 105 Stat. 614
Requesting that the President proclaim the months of November 1991 and November 1992 as National American Indian Heritage Month.
Pub. L. No. 103-462, 108 Stat. 4805
Designating the months of November 1993 and 1994 as National American Indian Heritage Month.

For more information about the United States Statutes at Large, please visit our research guide, Federal Statutes: A Beginner's Guide.

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