Raúl Grijalva: “What Tribal Nations need is for Congress to pass legislation to fix the jurisdictional maze of criminal jurisdiction in…”

This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities.

The passage of single-tribe legislation will inevitably diminish the political will to achieve additional Carcieri fixes.

To merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.

This amendment says that this act cannot take effect until the Secretary certifies that the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal permitting agencies have sufficient staff and funding to actually comply with the deadlines established…