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President Biden apologizes to Native Americans for ‘sin’ of a 150-year-old boarding school policy

SCHATZ, MURKOWSKI STATEMENTS ON PRESIDENT BIDEN’S FORMAL APOLOGY FOR INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS

October 25th, 2024

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, released the following statements on President Joe Biden’s formal apology for the federal government's former Indian Boarding School policies.


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President Biden Touts Historic Support for Indian Country and Transformation of the Nation-to-Nation Relationship with Tribal Nations

October 25th, 2024

President Biden and Vice President Harris have taken historic actions to support Indian Country through executive actions, historic investments, and strengthening government-to-government relationships. The President has issued three historic Executive Orders that reform federal funding to help live up to the promise of Tribal self-determination, improve public safety and criminal justice for Native Americans while targeting the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people, and improve educational outcomes and career opportunities for Native American students by focusing on systemic barriers and increasing access to high-quality education. The President has also taken further executive action through two Presidential Memoranda on Tribal consultation, including his 2021 Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships and his 2022 Memorandum on Uniform Standards for Tribal Consultation.


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U.S. Department of the Treasury Issues Proposed Guidance to Clarify Wholly-Owned Tribally Chartered Entities Are Not Subject to Income Tax and Expand Tribal Access to Clean Energy Tax Credits


Proposed rules describe that Tribally chartered entities have same federal tax status as their owning Tribes and clarify Tribal eligibility for elective pay to access Inflation Reduction Act tax credits


October 7th, 2024


WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) clarifying that wholly-owned Tribal entities chartered or organized by one or more Tribes have the same tax status of their owning Tribes. This means that these Tribal entities – businesses entirely owned by a Tribe – would not be subject to federal income tax. The proposed rule recognizes that Tribal economies are unique and rely on Tribal businesses to generate government revenue. The rule also would make these Tribal entities eligible for certain Inflation Reduction Act clean energy tax credits through a payment mechanism known as elective pay, commonly referred to as direct pay, that allows entities without federal tax liability to receive the full benefit of these incentives.


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Indian Affairs invests nearly $10 million to rehabilitate Columbia River Treaty Fishing Access Sites, as part of President’s Investing in America agenda
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will support improved clean water and sanitation facilities for Tribal fishers
October 1, 2024
CASCADE LOCKS, ORE. — The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs today announced a nearly $10 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to provide critical rehabilitation at Tribal fishing sites along the Columbia River.

In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing Access Sites were set aside by Congress for Tribal members of the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Yakama Tribes to exercise their rights to fish in the Columbia River. Many of these sites are currently in poor shape, needing improvements to ensure the health and safety of Tribal fishers and their families.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $71 Million to Electrify Homes Across Indian Country with Clean Energy through President’s Investing in America Agenda

Funding from the Tribal Electrification Program will help close access-to-electricity gap in 13 communities

September 26, 2024

WASHINGTON  The Department of the Interior today announced a $71 millioninvestment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to electrify homes in 13 Tribal communities across Indian Country, helping to close the Tribal access-to-electricity gap. This investment from the Inflation Reduction Act – the largest ever investment in climate – is a critical step toward the goal of electrifying all homes in the United States with clean energy sources and advances the Biden-Harris administration’s work to reach a carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035.


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Biden-Harris Administration Delivers Nearly $17 Million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Clean Up Legacy Pollution on Tribal Lands

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investments continue to help Tribes plug orphaned oil and gas wells, combat climate change, and protect natural resources

September 19, 2024

WASHINGTON?— The Department of the Interior today announced a $16.73 million investment through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to assist five Tribal Nations in cleaning up orphaned oil and gas wells on their homelands. This investment will support economic opportunities to address legacy pollution, reduce harmful methane leaks, and tackle environmental hazards that threaten Tribal communities. This builds on $12 million in grants announced last month by the Department and $40 million allocated last year. 


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The White House Opens Volunteer Applications for the 2024 Holiday Season

August 16, 2024

The President and First Lady are excited to continue the tradition of welcoming volunteer holiday decorators and volunteer holiday performers to help celebrate the holiday season at the White House. Starting today, applications are now open for those interested in volunteering for the 2024 holiday season.


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Interior Department Announces Nearly $7 Million for Indian Youth Service Corps Projects, Supported by President’s Investing in America Agenda

Projects will develop Tribal capacity in conservation, natural resource management, climate resilience

August 7, 2024

WASHINGTON?—The Department of the Interior today announced nearly $7 million through the Indian Youth Services Corps (IYSC) for Indigenous-led conservation projects across the nation. The IYSC, launched by Secretary Deb Haaland in 2022, is a partnership-based program helping provide meaningful education, good-paying jobs, and training opportunities to Indigenous youth through conservation projects on public and Tribal lands, and Hawaiian homelands. This latest round of projects will further advance the American Climate Corps, the Biden-Harris administration’s effort to empower a new, diverse generation of Americans to tackle the climate crisis and become part of a growing clean energy and climate-resilience workforce.


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NOAA to make $1.5 million available to tribes for regional ocean partnerships

Funding to be competitively awarded as part of Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda

August 1, 2024

Today, NOAA and the Commerce Department announced that $1.5 million is available to be competitively awarded to federally recognized tribes to increase tribal participation with regional ocean partnerships under the Biden Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.


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