U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee

Tlingit & Haida Tribes of Alaska’s Written Testimony to Senate Indian Affairs Committee

Sarah M Donnelly

Download the Tribe’s May 31st letter here.

Previous posts on S.2785 and S.2920 here and here.

Tulalip Tribe’s Written Testimony Submitted to Senate Indian Affairs Committee

Sarah M Donnelly1 Comment

Download Tulalip’s June 1st letter and attachments here.

Link to previous coverage of S.2785 and S.2920 here.

Pascua Yaqui Tribe’s Testimony Submitted to Senate Indian Affairs Committee

Sarah M Donnelly2 Comments

Download transcript of PYT’s oral testimony here.

Link to written testimony and meeting video here.

Links to legislation: S.2785, S.2916, S.2920.

U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Hearing, Early Childhood Development and Education in Indian Country

Victoria Sweet1 Comment

The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has posted the link to an Oversight Hearing held on February 26, 2014.

The topic of the hearing was “Early Childhood Development and Education in Indian Country: Building a Foundation for Academic Success.” Testimony was given by:

Ms. Linda K. Smith
Deputy Assistant Secretary and Inter-Departmental Liaison-for Early Childhood Development, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Mr. Danny Wells
Executive Officer-Division of Education, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, OK

Ms. Barbara Fabre
Chairman-National Indian Child Care Association; and Director, Child Care/Early Childhood Program, White Earth Ojibwe Nation, White Earth, MN

Ms. Jacquelyn Power
Superintendent/Principal-Blackwater Community School, Coolidge, AZ

Dr. E. Jane Costello
Associate Director for Research-Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC