On October 6, 2021, Fort Belknap Indian Community (FBIC) President Andrew Werk Jr. testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on the “Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes of the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021. This is...
In a letter to tribal leaders on October 19, 2021, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland rescheduled dates for tribal consultation on Interior’s Indian Boarding School Initiative. The Assistant Secretary also extended time period for written comments to...
The 2021 White House Tribal Nations Summit will take place on November 15 and 16, 2021. The registration deadline has been extended to Friday, November 5, 2021. Link here. Additionally, the White House has requested responses to the Tribal Nations Summit questionnaire...
The 2021 White House Tribal Nations Summit will be held the week of November 8, 2021. The summit will take place virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the deadline for registration is Friday, October 22. The Tribal Nations Summit provides an important opportunity...
Earlier this summer, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative to examine the troubled legacy of the federal boarding school policies in the United States. Haaland issued a memorandum on June 22,...
Last week, the U.S. Department of Treasury released its Guidance for the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund. The CCPF provides $100 million to be distributed to Indian tribes in equal shares to carry out critical capital projects that directly enable work, education,...
