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7 Apr 2021, 9:05 pm
For example, Congress could require the Secretary of the Interior to spend a certain amount of the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ budget on Indian labor and products. [read post]
5 Apr 2021, 9:04 pm
The United States currently recognizes 574 sovereign tribes, each of which is eligible to receive services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [read post]
30 Mar 2021, 5:20 pm
Includes the following speakers:Cynthia Harris, ELI (Moderator)Melody McCoy, NARFJames Meggesto, Holland & KnightRichard Peterson, President, Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of AlaskaSharlene Round Face, Chief, Division of Real Estate Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the InteriorMartha Saenz, Senior Policy Specialist, Institute for State Tribal Relations, National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)David Weeden, Tribal… [read post]
29 Mar 2021, 4:19 am
Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes, Deputy Solicitor, Indian Affairs, U.S. [read post]
26 Mar 2021, 8:33 am
In addition, the incumbent advises top officials and program managers within the Office of the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Trust Services. [read post]
22 Mar 2021, 9:05 pm
The Bureau of Indian Affairs describes the trust responsibility as “a legally enforceable fiduciary obligation on the part of the United States to protect Tribal treaty rights, lands, assets, and resources, as well as a duty to carry out the mandates of federal law with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages. [read post]
17 Mar 2021, 9:06 pm
” Finally, the Court also recommended—albeit to “a lesser extent”—that courts consider examining subsequent events, including: how Congress and the Bureau of Indian Affairs treated the lands in question; “who actually moved onto opened reservation lands;” and the “subsequent demographic history of opened lands. [read post]
12 Mar 2021, 1:12 pm
Association on American Affairs Office Manager, remote. [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 9:03 pm
The facility’s Bureau of Indian Affairs holdings range from tribes’ governing documents, demographic records that often remain determinative of Indian legal status today, and treaty and property documents critical to settling land disputes. [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 10:37 am
Responsible for providing advice, legal services, litigation representation and support on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior and Interior bureaus, primarily for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 10:44 am
She was one of the two first female Native Americans to be elected to Congress and she is once again on the verge of making history as the first Native American to head the Department of the Interior, which is also home to the Bureau of Indian Affairs that has responsibility for the management of more than 50,000,000 acres of land held by the U.S. government in trust for federally recognized tribes, and the animals on those lands. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 8:19 am
In 2020, this included introducing new research tools and search strategies, such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs Finding Aid, the Native American Treaties Explorer, and the Presidential Library Explorer, as well as projects organized by NARA staff to help improve access to records, like the Searchable Stock Shots project from the Motion Picture Preservation Lab. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 4:27 am
By Dana Hedgpeth, former board member of the Native American Journalists Association. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 1:42 pm
Upgrade Federal Voter Registration ServicesConsistent with the requirements of Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), President-elect Biden should direct federal agencies to provide voter registration services as part of their regular services to members of the public, agencies such as the Department of Veterans Affairs, Indian Health Service, and Department of Education. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 6:00 am
” Aside from that, there is very little commentary on why IHS decided to implement this rule change, but a GAO report from 2015 noted that “BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs] and IHS have policies and procedures in place to implement the Buy Indian Act” but “both agencies’ headquarters have limited insight into implementation of the Act at regional offices. [read post]
6 Dec 2020, 9:09 pm
The Reserved Treaty Lands Rights program, falling under the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Branch of Wildland Fire Management, enables tribes to collaborate with non-tribal landowners on projects to protect natural resources in ancestral areas that are highly vulnerable to wildfires. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 7:25 am
Earlier this year, and in the middle of a surging coronavirus pandemic, the Bureau of Indian Affairs announced its intention to revoke the Mashpee Wampanoag’s land from its federal trust. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 1:22 pm
This is a living project that will continue to grow and evolve as NARA digitizes more photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs records. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 12:01 am
This agreement gave the Nation control of its funding, programs and services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 5:00 am
As a Tonawanda Seneca Native, he became the first Native American Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [read post]
