We were able to follow up with funding, and the next year appropriated $10 million for tribal courts in P.L. 280 States.
We can't have DOJ over here not talking and intersecting with what Interior and HHS is.
This Committee has been a great forum to both shed light on the need to improve public safety and justice in Native comm...
We need the commitment of our Federal partners, and in this area, I think we are making some progress.
We saw that through passage of VAWA 2022, which included the tribal title that we authored.
I am trying to make sure that as you are taking these initial steps, again, there is a sharing of information back and f...
One of the things that we know is that programs that may work in one department are models that we should be looking to.
This pilot project supplements the work that the State of Alaska is doing with regard to public safety.
Sometimes it is easier to have somebody be that assistance in some community somewhere else in America where they have n...
I am honored to have worked with Native leaders in Alaska and across the Nation over multiple Congresses on these issues...
If you are in that position, we would like to see the direction and some proposal before we go on the August break.
I think Attorney General Garland seemed to agree with me, and I think that is why he directed the Office of Tribal Justi...
Thanks to VAWA 2022, tribes can prosecute more crimes of domestic violence as well as sexual violence, stalking, sex tra...
I cannot underscore enough how important this is for Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Dep...
I grew up in a part of the state where if you needed to go to the dentist, you got in an airplane or you got on a ferry.
One of the things that we see is a great disparity. I'm talking about rural, but so many of our rural communities are pr...
The dental health aid therapist program, the DHAT program, is something that we put in place in Alaska.
