American Indian and Alaska Native Public Witness Hearing, Day 3

Subcommittee hearing.

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Witnesses:

Panel I

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

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
House Appropriations Committee
   Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
2008 Rayburn

02/27/2025 at 09:00AM

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American Indian and Alaska Native Public Witness Hearing Day 2, Afternoon Session

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

Panel III

Panel IV

Panel V

House Appropriations Committee
   Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
2008 Rayburn

02/26/2025 at 01:30PM

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American Indian and Alaska Native Public Witness Hearing Day 2, Morning Session

Subcommittee hearing.

Witnesses:

Panel I

Panel II

Panel III

Panel IV

Panel V

Panel VI

  • Verlon Jose, Chairman, Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona
  • Tanya Lewis, Chairwoman, Yavapai-Apache Nation of Arizona
House Appropriations Committee
   Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
2008 Rayburn

02/26/2025 at 09:30AM

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Federal Indian Trust Asset Management

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.”

House Natural Resources Committee
   Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee
1324 Longworth

02/25/2025 at 02:00PM

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American Indian and Alaska Native Public Witness Hearing Day 1, Afternoon Session

Subcommittee hearing.

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Witnesses:

Panel I

Panel II

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

Panel III

Panel IV

Panel V

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

Panel VI

House Appropriations Committee
   Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
2008 Rayburn

02/25/2025 at 01:30PM

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American Indian and Alaska Native Public Witness Hearing Day 1, Morning Session

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

Panel III

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
House Appropriations Committee
   Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
2008 Rayburn

02/25/2025 at 09:30AM

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Native Communities’ Priorities for the 119th Congress

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.).

Senate Indian Affairs Committee
628 Dirksen

02/12/2025 at 02:30PM