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Subcommittee hearing.

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Witnesses:

Panel I

• Crystal Williams, Treasurer, United South and Eastern Tribes Sovereignty Protection Fund
• Abigail Echo-Hawk, Director, Urban Indian Health Institute
• Jason Schlender, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission

Panel II

• Monique Martin, Vice President of Intergovernmental Affairs, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
• Ileen Sylvester, Executive Vice President for Executive and Tribal Services, Southcentral Foundation

Panel III

• Reno Franklin, Chair, California Rural Indian Health Board
• Inder Wadhwa, Chief Executive Officer, Northern Valley Indian Health
• Teresa Sanchez, Health Board Delegate, Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health Inc.

Panel IV

• Jerilyn Church, President, Chief Executive Officer, Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board
• Anthony Locklear, Interim Chief Executive Officer, National Indian Health Board
• Robyn Sunday-Allen, Chief Executive Officer, National Council of Urban Indian Health

Panel V

• Anhiwake Rose, President, Chief Executive Officer, American Indian Higher Education Consortium
• Jason Dropik, Executive Director, National Indian Education Association
• Toni Tsatoke-Mule, Executive Director, Kiowa Education Agency and Higher Education

Panel VI

• Cecilia Fire Thunder, Chairwoman, Oglala Lakota Nation Education Coalition
• Jordan Etcitty, Executive Director, Diné bi Olta School Board Association
• Aurene Martin, Board of Directors Member, National Indian Child Welfare Association

Panel VII

• Greg Abrahamson, Vice-Chair, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
• Esther Lucero, President, Chief Executive Officer, Seattle Indian Health Board
• Lloyd Miller, Council, National Tribal Contract Support Coalition

Panel VIII

• Jeremy Takala, Chair, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
• Ed Johnstone, Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
• Heather Dawn Thompson, Vice President, Native Nations Conservation and Food Systems

Panel IX

• Austin Lowes, Tribal Chairman, Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
• Mark Macarro, President, National Congress of American Indians
• Cody Desautel, President, Intertribal Timber Council
• Cory Blankenship, Executive Director, Native American Finance Officers Association

02/27/2025 at 09:00AM

Subcommittee hearing.

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Witnesses:

Panel I

• Grant Johnson, President, Prairie Island Indian Community
• Anna Miller, Tribal Council Secretary, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Grand Traverse Tribal Council
• Stephen Selam, Executive Secretary, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
• Sheilah Bray, Vice-Chair, Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation

Panel II

• Jarred-Michael Erickson, Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
• William “Bill” Iyall, Chairman, Cowlitz Indian Tribe
• W. Ron Allen, Tribal Chairman, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and Pacific Salmon Commission

Panel III

• Quintin Swanson, Chairman, Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe
• Tom Strong, Vice-Chairman, Skokomish Indian Tribe
• Steve De Los Angeles, Vice-Chairman, Snoqualmie Tribe

Panel IV

• Eric White, Chairman, Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians
• Glen Gobin, Council Member, Tulalip Tribes
• Edwina “Winnie” Johnson-Graham, Vice-Chairwoman, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Panel V

• Robert Blanchard, Executive Director, Tribal Chairman, Bad River Tribe
• Buu Nygren, President, Navajo Nation
• Tehassi Hill, Chairman, Oneida Nation
• Guy Capoeman, President, Quinault Indian Nation

02/26/2025 at 01:30PM

Subcommittee hearing.

Witnesses:

Panel I

• Harry Antonio, Governor, Pueblo of Laguna
• Myron Armijo, Governor, Pueblo of Santa Ana
• Charles Riley, Governor, Pueblo of Acoma

Panel II

• Chuck Hoskin Jr., Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation
• Jonodev Chaudhuri, Ambassador, Muscogee (Creek) Nation
• Rodney Butler, Chairman, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and Native American Finance Officers Association

Panel III

• Mitchell Hicks, Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
• Cheyenne Robinson, Secretary, Omaha Tribe of Nebraska
• Kameron Runnels, Vice-Chairman, Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska
• Victoria Kitcheyan, Chairwoman, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

Panel IV

• Doreen Leavitt, Tribal Council Secretary, Iñupiat Community of the Artic Slope
• David Boxley, Councilman, Metlakatla Indian Community
• Cynthia Petersen, President, Yakutat Tlingit Tribe

Panel V

• Stephen Roe Lewis, Governor, Gila River Indian Community
• Duane Clarke, Chairman, Hualapai Tribe
• Martin Harvier, President, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
• Terry Rambler, Chairman, San Carlos Apache Tribe

Panel VI

• Verlon Jose, Chairman, Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona
• Tanya Lewis, Chairwoman, Yavapai-Apache Nation of Arizona

02/26/2025 at 09:30AM

On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs will hold an oversight hearing titled “Federal Indian Trust Asset Management: Progress Made But Improvement Needed.”

02/25/2025 at 02:00PM

Subcommittee hearing.

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Witnesses:

Panel I

• Jeffrey Stiffarm, President, Fort Belknap Indian Community
• Harlan Baker, Chairman, Chippewa Cree Tribe Business Committee and Rocky Boy Health Center
• Dana “Sam” Buckles, Councilman, Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck

Panel II

• Carole Lankford, Councilwoman, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
• Gene Small, President, Northern Cheyenne Tribe

Panel III

• Bruce Savage, Chairman, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
• Darrell Seki Sr., Chairman, Red Lake Band Chippewa Indians
• Leonard Fineday, Secretary, Treasurer, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
• Virgil Wind, Chief Executive, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe

Panel IV

• J. Conrad “JC” Seneca, President, Seneca Nation
• Wena Supernaw, Business Committee Chair, Quapaw Nation
• Jeff Wacoche, Chief, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians

Panel V

• Ken Ahmann, Tribal Utility Authority Director, Colusa Indian Community Council
• Jose Simon III, Chairman, Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians

Panel VI

• Josh Cook, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians
• Lester “Shine” Nieto, Chairman, Tule River Indian Tribe of California
• James Naranjo, Governor, Pueblo of Santa Clara

02/25/2025 at 01:30PM

Subcommittee hearing.

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Witnesses:

Panel I

• Donna Thompson, Vice-Chair, Fort Hall Business Council of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
• Chief Allen, Chairman, Coeur d’Alene Tribe

Panel II

• Stacy Shepherd, Executive Officer of Member Services, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
• Audrey Lee, Second Chief, Sac and Fox Nation
• Mike Natchees, Councilman, Ute Indian Tribe

Panel III

• Kirk Francis, Chief, Penobscot Indian Nation
• Corey Hinton, Citizen, Passamaquoddy Tribe
• Brian Harris, Chief, Catawba Nation
• John Johnson, President, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians

Panel IV

• Kathleen Wooden Knife, President, Rosebud Sioux Tribe
• Justin Song Hawk, Vice-Chairman, Yankton Sioux Tribe
• Frank Star Comes Out, President, Oglala Sioux Tribe

Panel V

• Ryman Lebeau, Chairman, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
• Janet Alkire, Chairwoman, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Panel VI

• Steven Orihuela, Chairman, Bishop Paiute Tribe
• Charles Martin, Chairman, Morongo Band of Mission Indians
• Erica Pinto, Chairwoman, Jamul Indian Village
• Cecilia Flores, Tribal Council Chairwoman, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe

02/25/2025 at 09:30AM

A full committee oversight hearing.

The Trump’s administration’s unconstitutional funding freeze is disrupting “funding streams through multiple federal agencies including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Service, Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Native American Programs.”

The federal government provided $32.6 billion in direct funding last year to federally recognized tribes through various programs and agencies.

Among the programs frozen by the Trump administration are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s tribal assistance programs and grants for Tribal Historic Preservation Offices.

As the freeze was enacted, Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) was confirmed overwhelmingly by the U.S. Senate on January 30th by a vote of 80-17.

The Democrats who joined the Republicans were Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Bennet and Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cantwell (D-Wash.), Cortez Masto and Rosen (D-Nev.), Durbin (D-Ill.), Gallego and Kelly (D-Ariz.), Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Hassan and Shaheen (D-N.H.), Heinrich and Lujan (D-N.M.), Kaine and Warner (D-Va.), King (I-Maine), Klobuchar and Smith (D-Minn.), Padilla (D-Calif.), Schatz (D-Hawaii), Slotkin (D-Mich.), Warnock (D-Ga.), Welch (D-Vt.), and Whitehouse (D-R.I.).

02/12/2025 at 02:30PM