Secretary Haaland Delivers Farewell Speech, Highlights Enduring Progress During Biden-Harris Administration
January 15, 2025
WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today delivered remarks during a program at the Department of the Interior to celebrate the historic and enduring progress achieved during the Biden-Harris administration.
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“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.”
President James Earl Carter Jr.
1924 – 2024
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Deb Haaland: The Impact of President Biden’s Apology to Indian Country
January 6, 2025
In a new blog on the Interior Department’s website today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland shares her perspective about the impact of the Department’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative and President Biden’s apology to Indian Country.
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IN 2024, CHAIR SCHATZ LED PASSAGE OF BILLS TO SUPPORT NATIVE LANDS, TOURISM, WATER RIGHTS, BUFFALO RESTORATION, AND IHS SERVICES; SECURED CRITICAL FUNDING FOR NATIVE COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE
16 Indian Affairs Bills Passed the Senate, More Than $15 Billion Invested in Native Communities This Year
January 1, 2025
WASHINGTON – Over the past year, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, led the passage of 16 bills and helped secure historic investments which will benefit Native communities nationwide. Specifically, Schatz worked to deliver record funding for Native housing, totaling more than $1.3 billion, as well as more than $7 billion to strengthen Native health care. Additionally, 4 bills were enacted into law, and several others – including the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act – advanced to the House for further consideration.
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Statement from Secretary Haaland on the Passing of President Jimmy Carter
December 29, 2024
WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today released the following statement on the passing of President Jimmy Carter:
"President Jimmy Carter exemplified what it means to live a life of faith and service to others. His love for and conservation of our shared public lands leaves a tremendous legacy, and I am grateful that the Department will continue to honor his work at the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park for generations to come. My heartfelt condolences go out to his family and the global community as we all mourn this selfless public servant."
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Check out the Afternoon Session of the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit including remarks from Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden.
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Biden-Harris Administration Releases 10-Year National Plan on Native Language Revitalization
December 9, 2024
WASHINGTON — At the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit today, Departments of the Interior, Education and?Health and Human Services (HHS) released a 10-year National Plan on Native Language Revitalization, which outlines a comprehensive, government-wide strategy to support the revitalization, protection, preservation and reclamation of Native languages. The plan, a joint effort of the agencies, charts a path to help address the United States government’s role in the loss of Native languages across the continental United States, Alaska and Hawaiʻi.
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Interior and Justice Departments Release Best Practices to Improve Media Coverage of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Cases
Guidelines Honor Commitment Made in Response to Not Invisible Act CommissionRecommendations
December 9, 2024
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior and the Department of Justice today published new guidelines and best practices to improve media coverage on the crisis of missing or murdered Indigenous peoples (MMIP) and human trafficking (HT).The release comes as the Biden-Harris administration hosts the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit, which provides an opportunity for the Biden-Harris administration and Tribal leaders from the 574 federally recognized Tribes to discuss ways the federal government can invest in and strengthen nation-to-nation relationships as well as ensure that progress in Indian Country endures for years to come.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden today signed a presidential proclamationestablishing the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as the 432nd site in national park system. The presidential proclamation for the new national monument, designated under the Antiquities Act, acknowledges the painful past of forced assimilation of Native children through the implementation of federal Indian boarding school policies. The announcement comes as the Administration hosts the annual White House Tribal Nations Summit today, which provides an opportunity for federal and Tribal leaders from the 574 federally recognized Tribes to discuss ways the federal government can invest in and strengthen nation-to-nation relationships as well as ensure that progress in Indian Country endures for years to come.
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Secretary Haaland Applauds 400 Co-Stewardship Agreements Under the Biden-Harris Administration
December 9, 2024
WASHINGTON — Secretary Deb Haaland today applauded the 400 co-stewardship agreements signed by the Biden-Harris administration with Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations and consortiums in remarks at the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit. The annual event, re-initiated by President Biden, provides an opportunity for Administration and Tribal leaders from the 574 federally recognized Tribes to discuss ways the federal government can invest in and strengthen nation-to-nation relationships as well as ensure that progress in Indian Country endures for years to come.
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President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Supports $65 Million Investment to Fulfill Indian Water Rights Settlements
Announcement represents last of the $2.5 billion authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
December 9, 2024
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced more than $65 million investment through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to continue fulfilling settlements of Indian water rights claims with funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The funding will support major water projects across the West to secure reliable water supplies for Tribes.
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Check out the Morning Session of the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit including the opening remarks from Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today delivered opening remarks during the Biden-Harris administration’s fourth White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior. Secretary Haaland highlighted the enduring progress that has been accomplished on behalf of and in partnership with Indigenous Peoples, from transformational investments in Indian Country made possible by President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to historic progress to empower Tribal sovereignty, self-determination and prosperity. The White House Tribal Nations Summit, re-initiated by President Biden in 2021, provides an opportunity for the Administration and Tribal leaders from the 574 federally recognized Tribes to discuss ways the federal government can invest in and strengthen nation-to-nation relationships as well as ensure that progress in Indian Country endures for years to come.
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Interior Department Announces Partnerships toMemorialize Stories and Impacts of Federal Indian Boarding School System
December 9, 2024
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced new agreements with the U.S. Library of Congress and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History as part of the Department’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. The new agreements will preserve the survivor stories disclosed initiative’s oral history project, and inform the public on histories relating to the federal Indian boarding school system and its impacts on Indigenous children and their communities.
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