American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Affairs Desk
The American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Affairs Desk has been established in the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to enhance access to information by Federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes regarding funding opportunities, training and technical assistance, and other relevant information.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/americannative/whats_new.htm
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American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Racial Statistics Branch
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/indian.html
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American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO)
The American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO) coordinates the Agency-wide effort to strengthen public health and environmental protection in Indian Country, with a special emphasis on building Tribal capacity to administer their own environmental programs. AIEO oversees development and implementation of the Agency's Indian Policy and strives to ensure that all EPA Headquarters and Regional Offices implement their parts of the Agency's Indian Program in a manner consistent with Administration policy to work with Tribes on a government-to-government basis and EPA's trust responsibility to protect Tribal health and environments.
http://www.epa.gov/indian/
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs' mission is to enhance the quality of
life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the
responsibilty to protect and improve the trust assest of American
indians, indian tribes and Alaska natives. We will accomplish this through the delivery of quality services,
maintaining Government-to-Government
relationships within the spirit of Indian
self-determination.
http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html
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Department of Energy: Indian Nations Program
Mission Statement: To provide a proactive program that guides the implementation of the U.S. Department of Energy American Indian Policy in an honorable and consistent manner. To provide effective ombudsman services and anticipate and initiate opportunities for meaningful tribal participation in Hanford decision making processes.
http://www.hanford.gov/doe/inp/index.htm
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Department of Health and Human Services - Administration for Native Americans
The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) promotes the goal of social and economic self-sufficiency of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Native American Pacific Islanders, including Native Samoans. Self-sufficiency is that level of development at which a Native American community can control and internally generate resources to provide for the needs of its members and meet its own
economic and social goals.
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ana/
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Federal Communications Commission - Indian Initiatives
At the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), our mission is to ensure that telecommunications services are available to "all the people" of the United States. While much of the Nation enjoys access to these services, many Indians do not. To fulfill our basic mission and to remedy the problem of unacceptably limited availablity of basic and advanced services to many regions of Indian Country, the FCC has established an outreach program to the Indian community and undertaken the following initiatives.
http://www.fcc.gov/indians/
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FEMA: Final Agency Policy
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has developed this final policy statement to guide FEMA’s interactions with American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal governments in response to a policy memorandum issued by the President on April 29, 1994. President Clinton’s memorandum directed agency and department heads to ensure that the Federal Government operates within a government-to-government relationship with Federally recognized Tribal governments.
http://www.fema.gov/library/natamerpolcy.shtm
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Kennewick Man
The human skeletal remains that have come to be referred to as the "Kennewick Man", or the "Ancient One", were found in July, 1996, below the surface of Lake Wallula, a pooled part of the Columbia River behind McNary Dam in Kennewick, Washington. Almost immediately controversy developed regarding who was responsible for determining what would be done with the remains. Claims were made by Indian tribes, local officials, and some members of the scientific community. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), the agency responsible for the land where the remains were recovered took possession, but its actions, following the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), to resolve the situation were challenged in Federal court.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/
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