okay, our second panel is the department of indian affairs interior bureau of indian affairs brian newland, assistant secretary for indian affairs and citizen of the bay mills indian community. richard and glenn melville the deputy bureau director office of justice services and member tribe of washington. department of health and human services, patricia the commissioner of the administration for native americans at the administration for children and families and the u.s. department of health and human services and of standing rock lakota. from the department of justice darren, just like it spells. [laughter] the acting director of the office of tribal justice and a member of the chickasaw nation. brian? you are first to break lexi bet you, thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member, good afternoon. i'm glad to be with you today. my name is brian newland i have the privilege of serving as assistant secretary and have had this privilege for the last four years now undersecretary leadership and president biden. mr. chairman come before i go any further i want to thank you in the ranking member

our second panel is the department of indian affairs bureau, department of interior bureau of indian affairs brian newland, the assistant secretary for indian affairs and citizen of the bay mills indian community. richard glenn melville, the deputy bureau director, office of justice services and member of the macabre tribe of washington, department of health and human services, the commissioner of the administration for native americans and administration for children and families in the us department of health and human services and of standing rock lakota dissent and the department of justice, darren carrero. just like it is spelled, the acting director of the office of tribal justice at the department of justice and enrolled member of the chickasaw foundation. you are first. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member. glad to be with you today. serving as assistant secretary, had this privilege for the last four years now undersecretary holland's leadership and president biden. before i go any further i want to thank you in the ranking member for the way you structured this committ

most reservations have their own police forces, but the bureau of indian affairs, the bia, a division of the department of interior is also involved in tribal law enforcement. the roles of the bia, tribal police, and local cops can be confusing, especially to the families of distraught, missing women. back in mandan. detective bowman gave the office on spirit like a call. she says, no one held her back. >> besties complicate things when you have these traditional issues with reservations, cities, and everybody is trying to walk work together and it does not always go so smoothly? >> absolutely. you are waiting for key pieces of your investigation that have to come from someone else. i can be right away, several days, but you are waiting. >> reporter: carla's mom, loretta, waited too, english anguished with carla's disappearance. >> what is that like waiting every day and she is still not calling?'s >> i cry every night to find answers or hear something-- >> but nothing. you just knew as her mom that something was very wrong? >> yes, i did. >> carla was out there, somewhere. maybe alon

the creation of missing murdered unit within the bureau of indian affairs office of justice service of021 to provide leadership and direction for cross department interagency work the 2023 launch of the department of justice indigenous at percent regional outreach program permit places 10 attorneys in court nader's five designated regions across the united states to help respond to cases. also as the grant funding public service announcements of the administration for native americans. but we need to do so much more to ensure the people feel safe and secure and they are safe and secure in their homes and communities. i know this is going to be important and as the chair said, heartbreaking conversation will shed more light. the better agreement of how to move forward and do more to solve these problems. i cannot thank you enough for telling your personal stories the work you have been doing you've all made a tremendous difference but really, it's up to us to make sure we get this across the finish line and reduce those numbers and change his situation. again, want to thank the chair fo

the department of the interior, the bureau of indian affairs and some of the most well-known native americans at the time, including charles eastman arthur parker, carlos montezuma. it seemed as if there was this consensus that the time had come for american citizenship. but when we look beyond the immediate passage of the 1924 legislation, it's clear just how controversial american citizenship was the united states in the decade preceding the snyder act. so, for example, in the winter of 1923, many representatives and native american activists came to dc to form a committee of 100 to reflect on the state of native policy and to recommendations to congress. the secretary of the interior, in their final report. they noted that the american was largely in support of native american citizenship, but they also noted, quote, the cold facts that every time a bill confirms citizenship has been introduced in congress, indians themselves had have in opposing them and the evidence they said was in congressional archives. and, of course, historians and activists within, native communities have always kn

congresswoman, one minute left, but i wanted to| minute left, but i wanted to touch on the bureau of indian affairsn member, he will be replacing, but he prioritise engagement with local tribes in north dakota. do you think that gives him credibility with native americans across the country? native americans across the count ? ~ , , country? we believe there is success in — country? we believe there is success in helping _ country? we believe there is success in helping to - country? we believe there is success in helping to serve l country? we believe there is l success in helping to serve our communities. i think our communities. i think our communities are hoping they will make good on their treaties and trust responsibilities. his stance on the united states power of healing, it is hard to imagine another trump ministration. while i am hopefulfor our country because my future, i'm not particularly optimistic. another nomination that has captured headlines is the president—elect�*s choice for health and human services secretary. former political rival turned loyalist robert f kenneder is a promi

bureau of indian affairs says california is home to over 100 federally recognized tribes, the highestr in the u.s. the despite this, many native american communities face significant challenges, including higher rates of poverty, limited access to quality healthcare, and underrepresentation in education and politics. >> i appreciate the efforts of universities being able to still admit students of color after affirmative action decisions, but there needs to be more because there's still that other feeling when we're walking on campus. >> reporter: this summit organized by ed vargas aims to front these issues head on by focusing on areas such as education, representation, unconscious bias, and gender equity. >> one thing that really bothered me growing up was to hear the term manifest destiny. that was the psychology or the philosophy that if you're caucasian that you could take whatever land you wanted moving west and if you put them on a treaty, you didn't have to live up to the terms. put them on reservations. they didn't have representation. now there is the government that acknowl

the us bureau of indian affairs says california is home to over 100 federally recognized tribes, the highest number in the us. despite this, many native american communities face significant challenges including higher rates of poverty limited access to quality health care and underrepresentation in education and politics. i appreciate the efforts of, like, universities being able to still admit students of color after like affirmative action decisions, but there just needs to be more. i think there needs to be more because there's still like that other feeling when we're walking on campus. this summit organized by ed vargas, aims to confront these issues head on by focusing on areas such as education representation, unconscious bias and gender equity. one thing that really bothered me growing up was to hear the term manifest destiny, and that was the psychology or the or the philosophy that if you're a caucasian then you could take whatever land you wanted moving west, and if you put them on a treaty you didn't even have to live up to the treaty terms. put them on reservations, and t

big issues come up there in the early seventies that we with we had the map put out by the bureau of indian affairs, had the tribes, you know, listed there and, shown on the map. and of course, of them, virtually all of them know in the west, no tribes in the east but these indians show up on our doorstep there at our central office there in boulder, colorado outside denver. and the told us that they were passamaquoddy and penobscot indians from maine. and so look at the map. and there's no tribes in maine. who are you guys? and. well, so they told us their history. well, we've been here forever and we used to have this relationship with the federal government. we have all these papers and everything, but the state of maine came along in the 1820s and just took over, took over, took our land and. it's been same ever since the federal government did anything to to help us, even though, of course, we had relationships with the federal. but they would not stop the state of maine from taking over and so could you help us? here's all our papers and everything and. oh, okay. we looked at him, you know. a

and the bureau of indian affairs was only marginally in providing people with evidence of their citizenship status. yeah, i. i'd like to note that the granting of these certificates when, you know, when they were delivered to native people in reservation settings very often was by a ritual which will drive home the point that i was making earlier in most white americans minds private property holding civil association were inextricable from citizenship. so the ritual would involve a native man emerging from a teepee shooting arrow off into the distance and then dropping the bow and to a plow and putting his on it and. sometimes, you know, they'd raise american flag. it speaks to the point. okay, we're going to do one more question and then i will take a break. so for those of you who are in person, we're going take a break, reconvene at 11:00 for our online urs. we'll be back at the podium at 11:00. for those of are here in person, we have a coffee and a little snacks and an opportunity for you to talk informally with one another so we've got two questions. i'm going to give you two questio

bureau of indian affairs says california's home to over 100 federally recognized tribes. y native american communities face significant challenges, including higher rates of poverty, limited access to quality health care, and underrepresentation in education and politics. >> i appreciate the efforts of like universities being able to still admit students of color after like -- affirmative action decisions. but there just needs to be more. i think there needs to be more because there's still like that -- other feeling when we're walking on campus. >> reporter: this summit organized by ed vargas aims to confront these issues head-on. by focusing on areas such as education, representation, unconscious bias, and gender equity. >> one thing that really bothered me growing up was to hear the term "manifest destiny" and that was the psychology or the philosophy that if you are occasion, then you could take whatever land you wanted moving west and if you put them on a treaty, you didn't even have to live up to the treaty terms. put them on reservations and they didn't have represe

in indian schools, the bureau of indian affairs. i've also taught in public schools.t to private schools, parochial schools, from the time i was in kindergarten through high school. so, i have a lot of background in that. i also went back and i taught in some of those schools that i was in when i was a child in private schools. i -- i would say, honestly, given my experience, that there is no comparison between private schools and public schools. the quality in public schools is amazing. private schools, you don't have to accommodate the way you have to in public schools. if you have a student that's not doing well, they are probably going to drop out. if you have a behavior problem, believe me, they will be gone in three weeks. i've seen it with my eyes. in the public schools, they have so many more materials, manipulative, and math, really quality schedules, time for the teachers to prepare. the private school, i had one half-hour week to prepare something apart from what i stayed after school and came in early to do. host: thank you for sharing that experience. let

congresswoman, minute left, i want to touch on the bureau of indian affairs. under doug bergen. of course, he would be replacing the first ever native american member of the cabinets, but as governor, he did prioritise engagement with some local tribes there in north dakota. do you think that background gives him some credibility with native americans across the country? native americans across the count ? ., ., ~' native americans across the count ? ., ., ~ ., native americans across the country?— native americans across the count ? ., ., country? look, we all hope our tribal nations _ country? look, we all hope our tribal nations and _ country? look, we all hope our tribal nations and for— country? look, we all hope our tribal nations and for our- tribal nations and for our communities that there is success in helping to serve our communities, so the responsibilities under both treaties and trust response ability to our tribal nations, but as the first indigenous cabinet secretary not only made history but has sent the united states on a historic path of heal