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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Interior Department Celebrates Fourth Great American Outdoors Act Anniversary with Fee-Free Day on Public Lands
Bipartisan investment is helping improve visitor experiences, bolster climate resilience and invest in the economy
July 31, 2024
WASHINGTON?— On Sunday, August 4, the Department of the Interior will commemorate the four-year anniversary of the signing of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) by waiving entrance fees at all lands managed by the Department. Other fees, such as overnight camping, cabin rentals, group day use and use of special areas, remain in effect. The GAOA is a bipartisan investment that improves visitor experiences, bolsters climate resilience and invests in the economy by creating good-paying jobs in our national parks, wildlife refuges, recreation areas and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)-funded schools.
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SCHATZ, MURKOWSKI STATEMENTS ON SECOND AND FINAL FEDERAL INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL INITIATIVE REPORT
July 31, 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 the Department of the Interior’s release of its second and final investigative report initiated by its Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. In addition to expanding on the number and details of institutions to include attendee deaths, the number of burial sites, participation of religious institutions and organizations, and federal dollars spent to operate these institutions, Volume 2 also includes policy recommendations for consideration by Congress and the Executive Branch to continue to chart a path to healing and redress for Indigenous communities.
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Secretary Haaland Announces Major Milestones for Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
Assistant Secretary Newland completes investigation, releases final report
July 30, 2024
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced next steps on the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, launched in June 2021 by Secretary Deb Haaland as the first-ever comprehensive effort by the federal government to recognize the troubled legacy of past federal Indian boarding school policies with the goal of addressing their intergenerational impact and shedding light on past and present trauma in Indigenous communities.
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Biden-Harris Administration Invests $120 Million to Help Tribes Build Climate Resilience, as part of President’s Investing in America agenda
July 9, 2024
SHELBYVILLE, Mich.— Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced the availability of $120 million in new funding supported by President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to help Tribal communities prepare for the most severe climate-related environmental threats to their homelands. The funding can be used by Tribes to plan for, adapt to, or respond to these threats by safely relocating critical community infrastructure. President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act provided a huge boost for the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Tribal Climate Resilience program, allowing for historic levels of funding to be made available to Tribes and Tribal organizations.
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Indian Affairs seeks input on updated Tribal Self-Governance regulations
PROGRESS Act promotes consensus between U.S. and Tribes
July 2, 2024
WASHINGTON – The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs today announced proposed amendments to regulations that implement the Tribal Self-Governance program. The proposed changes seek to increase transparency in nation-to-nation consultations and heighten standards for Tribal management. The proposed updates are required by the Practical Reforms & Other Goals to Reinforce the Effectiveness of Self-Governance & Self-Determination for Indian Tribes Act, known as the PROGRESS Act.
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DHS Announces $18.2 Million In First-Ever Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program Awards
President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help Federally recognized Tribal Nations become more resilient to cyber threats
July 1, 2024
WASHINGTON -- Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), announced more than $18.2 million in Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program (TCGP) awards to assist Tribal Nations with managing and reducing systemic cyber risk and threats. These are the first-ever Tribal Cybersecurity Grants to be awarded. The grant program was established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the more than 30 grant awards represent the largest number of awards ever provided by the Department to Tribal Nations in a single grant program.
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SCHATZ, MURKOWSKI ANNOUNCE LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH A COMMISSION ON FEDERAL INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL POLICIES HEADING TO SENATE FLOOR FOR CONSIDERATION
June 20, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC– 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, today announced the release of S.1723, Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act from Committee. The legislation, authored by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and co-led by Senator Murkowski, would establish a federal commission to investigate, document, and acknowledge past injustices of the federal government's former Indian Boarding School policies. The bill now heads to the Senate floor for consideration.
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