This document contains the text of a Senate hearing examining proposed changes (S. 496) to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. The amendment would take effect in October 1991 to establish a program of grants for vocational-technical training and to provide for the designation of the National Indian Center for Research in Vocational-Technical Training. Statements are given by U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico; Jo Jo Hunt, executive director of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education; David Gipp, president of the United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) in Bismarck, North Dakota; Russell Hawkins, UTTC chairman of the board; Gerald Monette, former president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, James M. Tutt, president of Crownpoint (New Mexico) Institute of Technology; Mike Doss and Karen Funk, of the National Indian Education Association; Roger Bordeaux, executive director of the Association of Community Tribal Schools, Vermillion, South Dakota; and Nelson Thompson, president of the Association of Navajo Community Controlled School Boards, Window Rock, Arizona. The majority of witnesses spoke in favor of the amendment, saying it would improve Indians' access to vocational education, educational equity, and economic development. (TES)