It was good to see the BIA disbursing about $30 million to tribes in P.L. 280 States.
Jurisdictional complexity should not deny safety or justice. That is what we have seen happening.
Thank you again for your ongoing leadership, not only over the years but over the decades as you are working to protect ...
Indeed, it is a genuine thank you. I want to thank you and your team for the very cooperative work...
Our reasons for keeping them out of it are rooted in fear, distrust, and assumptions about their capacity to soundly adm...
And we have in fact in place the Federal protections that are already afforded in law. It is not as if there is no due p...
I am absolutely confident, absolutely confident, that Alaska tribes are up to this task.
Some members of Congress and the news media pushed a narrative that tribal governments somehow would not be fair...
But I want to emphasize that the impacts on the ground in Native communities, particularly in places like very rural Ala...
We want the tools to combat this problem.
So the outcomes or results are the same, if you will, regardless of whether it is Congressional recognition or administr...