2008 Releases |
| 09/12/2008 |
Bureau of Indian Affairs Officer Wounded Responding to Domestic Violence Call on the Standing Rock Reservation |
| 09/05/2008 |
Michael Black Named Regional Director for BIA’s Great Plains Regional Office |
| 08/26/2008 |
Indian Affairs’ Internet Reconnection Completed |
| 08/07/2008 |
Department of the Interior Response to Decision on Cobell Lawsuit |
| 08/01/2008 |
Skibine Praises KILI-FM Radio Station’s Wind Turbine |
| 07/31/2008 |
Skibine Congratulates Oglala Sioux Tribe, State of South Dakota on Signing Joint Sovereign MOU for Tribe’s Secured Transactions Commercial Code |
| 07/11/2008 |
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to Participate in Indian Affairs Public Law 102-477 Program |
| 07/9/2008 |
Second National Conference on Child Protection and Child Welfare in Indian Country to be Held in Billings, Montana |
| 07/8/2008 |
National Geographic, 5 U.S. Agencies Sign Agreement toEmbrace Geotourism, Expanding Conservation Efforts |
| 06/25/2008 |
Indian Affairs Promotes Increased Capital Investment in Indian Country
|
| 05/30/2008 |
Skibine Announces Publication of Proposed Finding to Decline Federal
Acknowledgment of Group Known as Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe
|
| 05/30/2008 |
Skibine Announces Publication of Proposed Finding to Decline Federal
Acknowledgment of Group Known as Biloxi, Chitimacha Confederation of
Muskogees, Inc.
|
| 05/28/2008 |
Secretary Kempthorne Presents Presidential and Departmental Awards to
Interior Executives
|
| 05/27/2008 |
Skibine to Temporarily Assume Responsibilities of the Assistant Secretary for
Indian Affairs |
| 05/23/2008 |
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Network Reconnects to the Internet
(DOI-BIA release)
|
| 05/23/2008 |
Artman Announces Publication of Guidance Notice to Improve Federal
Acknowledgement Process Efficiency, Transparency
|
| 05/20/2008 |
Artman Announces Publication of Final Rule to Implement IGRA Section 20 |
| 04/29/2008 |
Kempthorne Announces Departure of Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Carl Artman (DOI release) |
| 04/28/2008 |
Gidner Names Dale Morris as BIA Pacific Regional Office Director |
| 04/17/2008 |
Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Carl Artman, Senator John Thune
Launch South Dakota Indian Business Incubator Project
|
| 04/11/2008 |
BIA Great Plains Region to Host 10th Annual Great Plains
Tribal Economic Development Summit April 15-16, 2008
|
| 03/18/2008 |
Landmark Indian Water Rights Settlement Fully Implemented (DOI release)
|
| 03/12/2008 |
Artman Issues Final Determination to Decline Acknowledgment of FAP Petitioner Steilacoom Tribe of Indians
|
| 03/10/2008 |
DOI Publishes Final Regulations on Tribal Energy Resource Agreements
|
| 02/22/2008 |
Fact
Sheet Concerning the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the
Oneida Indian Nation of New York’s Land-Into-Trust Application |
| 02/12/2008 |
DOI, Mashantucket and Seminole Tribes Sign Historic Partnership Agreement to Promote Indian Business Development |
| 02/08/2008 |
Artman to Host Kick-off Event for DOI Intertribal Economic Consortium
Initiative/Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and Seminole Tribe among first to join
Federal effort to build tribal economies by matching tribal buyers with sellers
|
| 02/04/2008 |
Safer Communities, Improved Education and Economic Investment
Highlight Fiscal Year 2009 Indian Affairs Budget |
| 01/31/2008 |
Interior Secretary Kempthorne, EPA Administrator Johnson, Others Announce
Increases for Indian Country Initiatives and Launch New On-line Employee
Training
(DOI-IA release)
|
| 01/29/2008 |
Media Advisory: Interior Secretary Kempthorne and EPA Administrator
Johnson to Discuss Indian Issues at National Press Club/To Discuss Progress on
Indian Country Initiatives and Launch New On-line Training for Federal
Employees (DOI-IA release)
|
| 01/17/2008 |
Artman
Invites Tribal Leaders to Indian Affairs Modernization Initiative
National Meeting Scheduled for January 30 in Washington, D.C. |
2007 Releases |
| 10/23/2007 |
October 25 Consultation Meeting on
Tribal Gaming RAPs Cancelled due to Southern California Wildland
Fire Emergency |
| 09/14/2007 |
Artman to Discuss Indian Modernization Initiative September 18
on Native America Calling |
| 09/12/2007 |
Artman Announces Changes To Bia Senior Management |
| 09/11/2007 |
Artman Names E. Sequoyah Simermeyer as Counsel to the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs |
| 08/30/2007 |
DOI-Tribal Dialogue Meetings on Indian Affairs Modernization Initiative Announced |
| 08/27/2007 |
Artman Names Attorney Majel Russel to Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Post |
| 07/20/2007 |
Artman to be Keynote Speaker July 24 at First BIE National Partnership Conference on Improving Indian Education |
| 07/05/2007 |
Ragsdale Announces Vicki Forrest as New Head of BIA Trust Services |
| 06/22/2007 |
Artman Issues a Final Determination to Decline Acknowledgment of the St. Francis/Sokoki Band of Abenakis of Vermont |
| 05/17/2007 |
More
than 500 Tribal Leaders, Federal Officials and Leaders of Native
Organizations Present Economic Policy Recommendation for Indian Country |
| 05/16/2007 |
Assistant
Secretary of Indian Affairs Carl Artman Addresses National Native
American Economic Policy Summit/Interactive Economic Policy Dialogue
Highlight of Summit |
| 05/15/2007 |
National
Native American Economic Policy Summit Convenes in Phoenix/Tribal
Leaders, Federal Partners Begin Crucial Dialogue on Indian Country’s
Economic Policy Agenda |
| 05/15/2007 |
Media
Advisory: Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Carl J. Artman to Deliver
Keynote Address at the National Native American Economic Policy Summit |
| 05/11/2007 |
Tribes, Native Organizations and Federal Agencies Gather for Ground-Breaking Economic Summit |
| 05/08/2007 |
Secretary Kempthorne Honors 28 Executives At Department of the Interior
(DOI release) |
| 05/08/2007 |
Tribes, Native Organizations, Federal Partners to Gather in Phoenix for
Ground-breaking Summit/National Native American Economic Policy
Summit May 15-17 |
| 05/04/2007 |
Ragsdale Confirms Ed Parisian as Regional Director of BIA Rocky Mountain
Regional Office |
| 05/01/2007 |
Idaho, Nez Perce Tribe, and Federal Government Finalize Snake River Water
Agreement (DOI-Nez Perce Tribe-State of Idaho release) |
| 04/30/2007 |
Media Advisory: Artman to Speak May 3 at Indian Country Law Enforcement
Officers’ Memorial Service |
| 04/24/2007 |
Artman Announces $1.5 Million Awarded to 13 Tribes for Energy and Mineral
Development Projects |
| 04/20/2007 |
Partnership Agreement Signed to Establish American Indian/Alaska Native
Business Opportunities and Workforce Development Center |
| 04/18/2007 |
Interior Secretary Kempthorne Formally Welcomes Carl Artman as Assistant
Secretary for Indian Affairs (DOI release) |
| 04/16/2007 |
Media Advisory: Secretary Kempthorne to Ceremonially Swear in Carl Artman
as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs (DOI release) |
| 04/13/2007 |
BIA Great Plains Tribal Economic Development Summit Set for Native American |
| 04/05/2007 |
Enemy Swim Day School FACE Program Among Winners of Verizon
Foundation’s First Tech Savvy Award/School’s RealeBook Project Recognized
for Use of Technology to Promote Family Literacy |
| 03/30/2007 |
Michael Olsen to Leave Indian Affairs for ASLM/George Skibine to Serve as
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary |
| 03/13/2007 |
Omar C. Bradley Named New Head of BIA’s Navajo Regional Office |
| 03/08/2007 |
Carl Artman Sworn In as New Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs |
| 03/05/2007 |
Kempthorne Applauds Senate’s Confirmation of Carl Artman as Assistant
Secretary – Indian Affairs (DOI release) |
| 02/21/2007 |
Media Advisory: Secretary Kempthorne to Meet with Tribal Leaders in Arizona
About Budget Initiatives to Fight Meth and Strengthen Schools (DOI release) |
| 02/15/2007 |
Cason Issues Positive Final Determination to Acknowledge the Mashpee
Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc., as an Indian Tribe |
| 02/05/2007 |
Kempthorne: Indian Initiatives Focus on Safety, Education of American Indian
Youth (DOI news release) |
| 02/05/2007 |
Education and Law Enforcement Initiatives the Focus of President’s Fiscal Year
2008 Budget Request for Indian Affairs |
2006 Releases |
| 11/03/2006 |
Historic Agreement Resolves Navajo-Hopi Dispute Over Tribal Lands in Arizona |
| 08/22/2006 |
DOI Indian Affairs Publishes Proposed Regulations for
Tribal Energy Resource Agreements |
| 08/18/2006 |
Tulalip Tribes Of Washington State Approved For 477 Participation |
| 08/18/2006 |
Cason Announces IEED Wind Energy Development Grant Award
to Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. |
| 07/19/2006 |
Cason Announces IEED Tribal Utility Development Grant Award to the Pueblo of Laguna
|
| 06/08/2006 |
Cason Announces IEED 477 Participation Planning Grants for Tribes |
| 06/02/2006 |
Allen Anspach New Regional Director for
BIA's Western Regional Office in Phoenix |
| 04/27/2006 |
Cason Announces IEED to Sponsor Indian Country Lending Conference |
| 04/21/2006 |
Former Interior Secretary Lujan to Join Cason, Swimmer
for April 27 Dedication of New BIA Office Building and
Opening of DOI National Indian Programs Training Center |
| 04/20/2006 |
Grayford Payne Receives 2005 Secretary's Executive Leadership Award |
| 04/20/2006 |
8th Annual Great Plains Region/Tribal Economic Development Summit |
| 03/31/2006 |
Cason Issues Proposed Finding to Acknowledge
Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Incorporated,
as an Indian Tribe |
| 03/27/2006 |
DOI to Hold Consultation Meetings on
Proposed IGRA Section 20 Regulations |
| 03/23/2006 |
DOI Tribal Consultation Meeting on
Draft Indian Trust Management Regulations
March 29, 2006 - Portland, Oregon |
| 03/21/2006 |
Winnebago Agency Fire and Fuels Management Group
Honored at 2006 National Fire Plan Awards Ceremony |
| 03/03/2006 |
Spokane Tribe Aprroved for 477 Participation |
| 02/07/2006 |
First of Three DOI Tribal Consultation Meetings
on Revisions to Indian Trust Management Regulations
to be Held February 14-15 in Albuquerque |
| 02/06/2006 |
Trust Management, Education, Energy, Law Enforcement and
Self-Determination Highlighted in BIA Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Request |
| 01/23/2006 |
DOI Indian Affairs is a Major Sponsor of
Reservation Economic Summit 2006 |
| 01/19/2006 |
BIA Special Agents Janis and Redlegs Recognized for Work
in Marijuana Eradication on Yakama Nation Reservation |
| 01/05/2006 |
Cason Announced DOI to hold Consultation Meetings to
Develop Regulations to Govern Tribal Energy Resource Agreements |
2005 Releases |
| 11/29/2005 |
BIA Completes Transfer of Surplus Air Base Lands to
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians |
| 11/10/2005 |
Associate Deputy Secretary Declines to Acknowledge
St. Francis/Sokoki Band of Abenaki as an Indian Tribe |
| 10/31/2005 |
Cason to Speak at NCAI 62nd Annual Convention |
| 10/28/2005 |
BIA Approves Extension of Comment Period
for Oneida Indian Nation Land-Into-Trust Application |
| 10/28/2005 |
BIA Special Agent Leonard Merriam Graduates
From The FBI National Academy |
| 10/17/2005 |
Indian Energy Opportunity Roundtable |
| 10/12/2005 |
The Department of the Interior Issued Reconsidered Final Determination
to Decline Federal Acknowledgment of the Eastern Pequot Indians of
Connecticut and the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Indians of Connecticut |
| 10/12/2005 |
The Department of the Interior Issued Reconsidered Final Determination
to Decline Federal Acknowledgment of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation |
| 10/06/2005 |
Cason to Speak on BIA Education at NIEA 2005 |
| 09/09/2005 |
Ragsdale Tours Mississippi Choctaw Reservation
Impacted by Hurricane Katrina |
| 09/01/2005 |
Cason Announces Initial BIA Response to Aid
Tribal Victims of Hurricane Katrina |
| 09/01/2005 |
Associate Deputy Secretary Cason to Visit Hopi Tribe September 1
as Tribe's Schools Achieve AYP for Second Consecutive Year |
| 08/26/2005 |
Joint Statement of Ross O. Swimmer, Special Trustee for
American Indians, and W. Patrick Ragsdale, Director,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, on the Death in Iraq of
Former Cherokee Nation Marshall Mike Dawes |
| 08/25/2005 |
Parisian Announces Schedule for 2005 OIEP Tribal Consultation Meetings |
| 08/22/2005 |
Chaney Named Head of BIA Law Enforcement |
| 06/28/2005 |
Associate Deputy Secretary Jim Cason Announces $1.4 million
in Fire Recovery Funds for Crow Creek High School |
| 05/12/2005 |
Associate Deputy Secretary Jim Cason Announces Assistance to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe for Fire Damage Recovery |
| 05/04/2005 |
BIA Director Ragsdale to Deliver Keynote Address at
May 5 Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial Event |
| 04/28/2005 |
OIEP Publishes Final Rule to Implement the
No Child Left Behind Act in BIA Schools |
| 04/28/2005 |
BIA Special Agent Selanhongva McDonald
Graduates from FBI National Academy |
| 04/28/2005 |
BIA 7th Annual Great Plains Tribal/Federal
Economic Development Summit to be held May 9-12 |
| 04/25/2005 |
Amy Hall, Hannahville FACE Educator and
2005 Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year,
Honored at NCFL National Conference |
| 03/30/2005 |
Secretary Norton Rejects Golden Hill Paugussett Appeal |
| 03/23/2005 |
Indian Health Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs Responding to Red Lake Reservation Tragedy |
| 03/09/2005 |
Chickasaw Astronaut John Herrington to Give Keynote Address
at BIA FACE and Baby FACE National Training Conference |
| 03/07/2005 |
Interior Restructures Office of Hearings and Appeals To Focus on Indian Probate Cases |
| 02/07/2005 |
Assistant Secretary Announces W. Patrick Ragsdale
As New Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| 02/07/2005 |
Trust and Detention Facilities See Increases
Under BIA Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Request |
| 02/07/2005 |
Anderson Announces Initiative With GSA to
Help Tribes Utilize E-Buy for Online Procurement |
| 01/31/2005 |
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Dave Anderson Announces his Decision to Resign and resume His Entrepreneur Career |
| 01/31/2005 |
BIA is Among Major Sponsors of RES 2005 |
| 01/28/2005 |
Anderson to Attend Boys & Girls Clubs of America
2005 Native American Summit |
