The United States Treasury Department is entrusted with a broad range of duties and functions in addition to monetary functions such as budgets, taxes, and currency production and circulation, Treasury also oversees critical functions in law enforcement, economic policy development, and international treaty negotiation, just to name a few. They include active programs against terrorist financing, money laundering, counterfeiting and narcotics trafficking, They comprise responsibility for economic sanctions and embargoes, international markets and trade, foreign technical assistance, and financial stability standards. Prime responsibility for tracking the public debt, Treasury securities, government lending, economic development, and international capital movements also reside with Treasury. This new book presents current issues related to Treasury as well as important background and bibliographic information.

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Designed to focus on the vast research materials relating to American Indians in the National Archives of the United States and to aid prospective researchers in the use of this material.