I support Senator Udall's modernization proposal of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act.
For centuries, the United States used cultural appropriation as a tool of colonization.
Good afternoon Vice Chairman Udall and Senator Heinrich.
Fake art drives down prices, forces Native Americans to quit their crafts and devalues Native American art.
Thank you, Senator Heinrich so much, and thank you for your good, hard work on the STOP Act, which is for the protection of cultural patrimo...
So that's your best guess at this point.
And my understanding, when you were the U.S. attorney, you initiated efforts with the leaders of the Indian Nations here in New Mexico and a...
I think we really need to just work together.
The protection of tribal nations is of the utmost importance to the Department of the Interior.
When someone steals and sells a tribe's cultural patrimony, they are stealing that tribe's traditions and identity.
So it was a big problem then. But now I understand that as much as 80 percent of those goods are likely counterfeit and therefore being sold...
Do you think it would be helpful to dedicate resources to improving fraudulent--to looking at the fraudulent online sales?
Obviously, this is an enormous amount of money that should be going back to Indian Country.
We commend Senator Tom Udall and the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for taking up this important strengthening of the Arts and Crafts Ac...
I was proud to reintroduce the bipartisan Safeguard Tribal Objects and Patrimony or STOP Act.
That's the declared value coming into the U.S. I would say maybe Meredith can answer this better.
I fully support efforts to enhance and enforce legislation providing harsher penalties for those who would cheat our indigenous artists by a...
I would ask that in addition to revising the statute, that you would also consider respectively contacting the U.S. Department of Homeland S...
