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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SCHATZ URGES PRESIDENT BIDEN TO PARDON NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST LEONARD PELTIER IN FINAL WEEKS OF TERM
Schatz Has Repeatedly Led Calls in Congress to Grant Peltier Clemency Citing Unjust Circumstances of Trial; Peltier’s Old Age, Health
December, 4, 2024
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Acting Deputy Secretary Daniel-Davis Highlights Commitment to Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge, Enhancing Tribal Climate Resilience at COP29
November 18, 2024
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Acting Deputy Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis today kicked off a week-long series of events, meetings and activities at the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Baku. The Department of the Interior delegation’s participation at COP29 will highlight the progress made under the Biden-Harris administration towards pursuing nature-based solutions and ambitious clean energy goals, addressing drought resilience needs across western states, investing in climate adaptation for at risk communities affected by sea level rise and coastal and inland flooding, and honoring Indigenous communities, including by applying and protecting Indigenous Knowledge to address complex climate and biodiversity risks.
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NATV covered President Elect Trumps visit to The White House for a meeting with President Joe Biden.
November 13, 2024
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