Here:
Perrelli Testimony FINAL July 14 2011 SCIA
Here is the link to the hearing.
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
SCIA Witness List with Links to Prepared Testimony
Panel I
MR. DONALD “DEL” LAVERDURE, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC
Panel II
MR. ROBERT T. COULTER, Executive Director, Indian Law Resource Center, Helena, MT
MR. JAMES ANAYA, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, United Nations, Tucson, AZ
MR. LINDSAY G. ROBERTSON, Professor of Law / Faculty Director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center / Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor / and Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma
MR. RYAN RED CORN, Filmmaker / Member, 1491s, Pawhuska, OK
Panel III
THE HONORABLE FAWN SHARP, President, Quinault Indian Nation, Taholah, WA
MR. FRANK ETTAWAGESHIK, Executive Director, United Tribes of Michigan, Harbor Springs, MI
MR. DUANE YAZZIE, Chairperson, Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, Window Rock, AZ
MS. MELANIE KNIGHT, Secretary of State, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, OK
Witness List in Tomorrow’s Senate Committee Hearing on the UN Declaration
From the SCIA website:
OVERSIGHT HEARING on Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Thursday, June 9 2011
2:15PM
Dirksen Senate Office Building 628Description:
The hearing will explore the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as an international policy goal to which the United States is signatory, the current ways existing domestic policy achieves the UNDRIP goals, and additional domestic policy considerations to make the United States a world leader in indigenous rights and implementation of the UNDRIP.
WITNESS LIST
Panel I
MR. DONALD “DEL” LAVERDURE, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC
Panel II
MR. ROBERT T. COULTER, Executive Director, Indian Law Resource Center, Helena, MT
MR. JAMES ANAYA, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, United Nations, Tucson, AZ
MR. LINDSAY G. ROBERTSON, Professor of Law / Faculty Director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center / Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor / and Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma
MR. RYAN RED CORN, Filmmaker / Member, 1491s, Pawhuska, OK
Panel III
THE HONORABLE FAWN SHARP, President, Quinault Indian Nation, Taholah, WA
MR. FRANK ETTAWAGESHIK, Executive Director, United Tribes of Michigan, Harbor Springs, MI
MR. DUANE YAZZIE, Chairperson, Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, Window Rock, AZ
MS. MELANIE KNIGHT, Secretary of State, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Tahlequah, OK
Senate hearing on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is opportunity to work for major changes in federal policy and law
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will be holding an oversight hearing:
Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
| Date:Time:
Location: |
June 9, 20112:15 pm (EST)
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628 Washington, D.C |
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| The hearing will be webcast live at www.indian.senate.gov.For resources about the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples visit www.indianlaw.org | ||
Prepared Statements in Yesterday’s SCIA Oversight Hearing on “Stolen Identities”
Here is the witness list, with links directly to their prepared statements:
The Honorable Tex Hall
Chairman
Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, and Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association, New Town, ND
Ms. Suzan Shown Harjo
President
The Morning Star Institute, Washington, DC
Ms. Charlene Teters
Professor
Studio Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts Santa Fe, NM
Panel # 2
Ms. Stephanie Fryberg
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Mr. Chaske Spencer
Actor/ Producer, and Partner
Urban Dream Productions, New York, NY
Mr. Jim Warne
President
Warrior Society Development, San Diego, CA
Last Week’s SCIA Oversight Hearing on SBA sec. 8(a)
Witnesses (with links to written testimony):
Panel # 1
Mr. Joseph G. Jordan [testimony]
Associate Administrator
Government Contracting and Business Development, Small Business Administration, Washington, DC
Mr. Peter L. McClintock [testimony]
Deputy Inspector General,
Office of the Inspector General, Small Business Administration, Washington, DC
Panel # 2
Ms. Jackie Johnson-Pata [testimony]
Executive Director
National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC
President
Alaska Federation Natives, Anchorage, AK
Panel # 3
The Honorable Chief James Allan [testimony]
Tribal Chairman
Coeur d’Alene Tribe, Plummer, ID
Chairman
Native American Contractor s Association, Washington, DC, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Ho-Chunk, Inc., Winnebago, NE
President
S & K Electronics Inc., Ronan, MT
Carcieri Fix/Akaka Bill Hearings Postponed
Until December 17 (here).
Prepared Testimony of Federal Recognition Hearing Witnesses
From the SCIA:
Panel 1
MR. GEORGE SKIBINE
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC
Accompanied: MR. R. LEE FLEMING, Director, Office of Federal
Acknowledgement U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC
Panel 2
MR. FRANK ETTAWAGESHIK
Chair, Federal Acknowledgment Task Force, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC
THE HONORABLE JOHN SINCLAIR
President, Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Havre, Montana
THE HONORABLE ANNE D. TUCKER
Chairperson, Muscogee Nation of Florida, Bruce, FL
MS. PATTY FERGUSON -BOHNEE
Director, Indian Legal Clinic, Tempe, Arizona
Senate Hearing on Federal Recognition Witness List
From the SCIA:
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, announced Tuesday the panel will hold a congressional oversight hearing at 2:15 PM on Wednesday, November 4. The hearing will examine Department of Interior efforts to repair the federal acknowledgement process for Indian tribes. It will also review proposals for improving the system.
Securing formal, federal tribal recognition is vital. It establishes a formal government-to-government relationship between the tribe and the U.S. government. Once federally recognized, a tribe has access to federal benefits and programs.
Yet, the acknowledgement process is broken and has been since it was established in 1978. Tribes routinely wait decades without getting a decision. Some tribes, including one tribe which will present testimony at the hearing, have been stuck in the federal acknowledgment process since 1978 with no decision. The prolonged process cost tribes funds urgently needed elsewhere, and denies tribes that are eventually recognized access to benefits and programs, often for decades.
Details follow:
WHO: U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Senator Byron Dorgan, Chairman; Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Vice Chairman, and other members of the committee.
WITNESSES: George Skibine, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior; Frank Ettawageshik, Chair, Federal Acknowledgement Task Force, National Congress of American Indians; John Sinclair, President, Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Havre, Montana; Ann D. Tucker, Tribal Chairperson, Muscogee Nation of Florida, Bruce, Florida; and Patty Ferguson-Bohnee, Director, Indian Legal Clinic, Tempe, Arizona.
WHAT: Congressional oversight hearing
WHEN: 2:15 PM, Wednesday, November 4, 2009
WHERE: 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
WHY: To review Department of Interior efforts to repair the federal acknowledgement process for granting formal recognition to Indian tribes.
ICT on State Opposition to Carcieri Fix
From ICT:
Money and power drive states’ interest in Carcieri ‘fix’
Seventeen attorneys general, seeking property taxes and more state power over sovereign Indian lands, have written to the ranking members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the House Resources Committee urging them to move slowly – if at all – on any Carcieri “fix” and to include them in discussions on the Interior secretary’s authority to take land into trust for the nations.
“A March 13 story in Indian Country Today said Indian country officials are calling for a quick legislative fix so that state and local interests will not have time to make arguments to Congress that the Carcieri decision should stand. The undersigned believe it would not be in the best interests of all stakeholders, both Indian and non-Indian, to rush a legislative fix and to ignore legitimate state and local interests,” the attorneys general wrote.
The Carcieri fix would have Congress amending the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act by deleting the phrase “any tribe now under federal jurisdiction” or adding the words “or hereafter” after the word “now.”
The fix would correct a February ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which interpreted “now” to mean then – 1934. The case centered on a 31 acre parcel of land purchased by the Narragansett Indian Tribe for elderly housing. The Interior Department agreed to place the land in trust, but the state and town fought that action all the way to the high court, where the justices ruled 6-3 that the Interior secretary could not take the land into trust because the tribe was not “federally recognized” in 1934.
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