2007 Releases
10/23/2007 - October 25 Consultation Meeting on Tribal Gaming RAPs Cancelled due to Southern California Wildland Fire Emergency

09/14/2007 - Artman to Discuss Indian Modernization Initiative September 18 on Native America Calling

09/12/2007 - Artman Announces Changes To BIA Senior Management

09/11/2007 - Artman Names E. Sequoyah Simermeyer as Counsel to the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs

08/30/2007 - DOI-Tribal Dialogue Meetings on Indian Affairs Modernization Initiative Announced

08/27/2007 - Artman Names Attorney Majel Russel to Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Post

07/20/2007 - Artman to be Keynote Speaker July 24 at First BIE National Partnership Conference on Improving Indian Education

07/05/2007- Ragsdale Announces Vicki Forrest as New Head of BIA Trust Services

06/22/2007 - Artman Issues a Final Determination to Decline Acknowledgment of the St. Francis/Sokoki Band of Abenakis of Vermont

05/17/2007 - More than 500 Tribal Leaders, Federal Officials and Leaders of Native Organizations Present Economic Policy Recommendation for Indian Country

05/16/2007 - Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Carl Artman Addresses National Native American Economic Policy Summit/Interactive Economic Policy Dialogue Highlight of Summit

05/15/2007 - National Native American Economic Policy Summit Convenes in Phoenix/Tribal Leaders, Federal Partners Begin Crucial Dialogue on Indian Country's Economic Policy Agenda

05/15/2007 - Media Advisory: Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Carl J. Artman to Deliver Keynote Address at the National Native American Economic Policy Summit

05/11/2007 - Tribes, Native Organizations and Federal Agencies Gather for Ground-Breaking Economic Summit

05/08/2007 - Secretary Kempthorne Honors 28 Executives At Department of the Interior (DOI release)

05/08/2007 - Tribes, Native Organizations, Federal Partners to Gather in Phoenix for Ground-breaking Summit/National Native American Economic Policy Summit May 15-17

05/04/2007 - Ragsdale Confirms Ed Parisian as Regional Director of BIA Rocky Mountain Regional Office

05/01/2007 - Idaho, Nez Perce Tribe, and Federal Government Finalize Snake River Water Agreement (DOI-Nez Perce Tribe-State of Idaho release)

04/30/2007 - Media Advisory: Artman to Speak May 3 at Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial Service

04/24/2007 - Artman Announces $1.5 Million Awarded to 13 Tribes for Energy and Mineral Development Projects

04/20/2007 - Partnership Agreement Signed to Establish American Indian/Alaska Native Business Opportunities and Workforce Development Center

04/18/2007 - Interior Secretary Kempthorne Formally Welcomes Carl Artman as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs (DOI release)

04/16/2007 - Media Advisory: Secretary Kempthorne to Ceremonially Swear in Carl Artman as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs (DOI release)

04/13/2007 - BIA Great Plains Tribal Economic Development Summit Set for Native American

04/05/2007 - Enemy Swim Day School FACE Program Among Winners of Verizon Foundation's First Tech Savvy Award/School's RealeBook Project Recognized for Use of Technology to Promote Family Literacy

03/30/2007 - Michael Olsen to Leave Indian Affairs for ASLM/George Skibine to Serve as Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary

03/13/2007 - Omar C. Bradley Named New Head of BIA's Navajo Regional Office

03/08/2007 - Carl Artman Sworn In as New Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs

03/05/2007 - Kempthorne Applauds Senate's Confirmation of Carl Artman as Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs (DOI release)

02/21/2007 - Media Advisory: Secretary Kempthorne to Meet with Tribal Leaders in Arizona About Budget Initiatives to Fight Meth and Strengthen Schools (DOI release)

02/15/2007 - Cason Issues Positive Final Determination to Acknowledge the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc., as an Indian Tribe

02/05/2007 - Kempthorne: Indian Initiatives Focus on Safety, Education of American Indian Youth (DOI news release)

02/05/2007 - Education and Law Enforcement Initiatives the Focus of President's Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request for Indian Affairs


2006 Releases
11/03/2006 - Historic Agreement Resolves Navajo-Hopi Dispute Over Tribal Lands in Arizona

08/22/2006 - DOI Indian Affairs Publishes Proposed Regulations for Tribal Energy Resource Agreements

08/18/2006 - Tulalip Tribes Of Washington State Approved For 477 Participation

08/18/2006 - Cason Announces IEED Wind Energy Development Grant Award to Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc.

07/19/2006 - Cason Announces IEED Tribal Utility Development Grant Award to the Pueblo of Laguna

06/08/2006 - Cason Announces IEED 477 Participation Planning Grants for Tribes

06/02/2006 - Allen Anspach New Regional Director for BIA's Western Regional Office in Phoenix

04/27/2006 - Cason Announces IEED to Sponsor Indian Country Lending Conference

04/20/2006 - Grayford Payne Receives 2005 Secretary's Executive Leadership Award

04/20/2006 - 8th Annual Great Plains Region/Tribal Economic Development Summit

03/31/2006 - Cason Issues Proposed Finding to Acknowledge Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Incorporated, as an Indian Tribe

03/27/2006 - DOI to Hold Consultation Meetings on Proposed IGRA Section 20 Regulations

03/23/2006 - DOI Tribal Consultation Meeting on Draft Indian Trust Management Regulations March 29, 2006 - Portland, Oregon

03/21/2006 - Winnebago Agency Fire and Fuels Management Group Honored at 2006 National Fire Plan Awards Ceremony

03/03/2006 - Spokane Tribe Approved for 477 Participation

02/07/2006 - First of Three DOI Tribal Consultation Meetings on Revisions to Indian Trust Management Regulations to be Held February 14-15 in Albuquerque

02/06/2006 - Trust Management, Education, Energy, Law Enforcement and Self-Determination Highlighted in BIA Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Request

01/23/2006 - DOI Indian Affairs is a Major Sponsor of Reservation Economic Summit 2006

01/19/2006 - BIA Special Agents Janis and Redlegs Recognized for Work in Marijuana Eradication on Yakama Nation Reservation

01/05/2006 - Cason Announced DOI to hold Consultation Meetings to Develop Regulations to Govern Tribal Energy Resource Agreements


2005 Releases
11/29/2005 - BIA Completes Transfer of Surplus Air Base Lands to San Manuel Band of Mission Indians

11/15/2005 - Associate Deputy Secretary Declines to Acknowledge St. Francis/Sokoki Band of Abenaki as an Indian Tribe

10/31/2005 - Cason to Speak at NCAI 62nd Annual Convention

10/28/2005 - BIA Approves Extension of Comment Period for Oneida Indian Nation Land-Into-Trust Application

10/28/2005 - BIA Special Agent Leonard Merriam Graduates From The FBI National Academy

10/17/2005 - Indian Energy Opportunity Roundtable

10/12/2005 - The Department of the Interior Issued Reconsidered Final Determination to Decline Federal Acknowledgment of the Eastern Pequot Indians of Connecticut and the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Indians of Connecticut

10/12/2005 - The Department of the Interior Issued Reconsidered Final Determination to Decline Federal Acknowledgment of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation

10/06/2005 - Cason to Speak on BIA Education at NIEA 2005

09/09/2005 - Ragsdale Tours Mississippi Choctaw Reservation Impacted by Hurricane Katrina

09/01/2005 - Cason Announces Initial BIA Response to Aid Tribal Victims of Hurricane Katrina

09/01/2005 - Associate Deputy Secretary Cason to Visit Hopi Tribe September 1 as Tribe's Schools Achieve AYP for Second Consecutive Year

08/26/2005 - Joint Statement of Ross O. Swimmer, Special Trustee for American Indians, and W. Patrick Ragsdale, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, on the Death in Iraq of Former Cherokee Nation Marshall Mike Dawes

08/25/2005 - Parisian Announces Schedule for 2005 OIEP Tribal Consultation Meetings

08/22/2005 - Chaney Named Head of BIA Law Enforcement

06/28/2005 - Associate Deputy Secretary Jim Cason Announces $1.4 million in Fire Recovery Funds for Crow Creek High School

05/12/2005 - Associate Deputy Secretary Jim Cason Announces Assistance to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe for Fire Damage Recovery

05/04/2005 - BIA Director Ragsdale to Deliver Keynote Address at May 5 Indian Country Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial Event

04/28/2005 - OIEP Publishes Final Rule to Implement the No Child Left Behind Act in BIA Schools

04/28/2005 - BIA Special Agent Selanhongva McDonald Graduates from FBI National Academy

04/28/2005 - BIA 7th Annual Great Plains Tribal/Federal Economic Development Summit to be held May 9-12

04/25/2005 - Amy Hall, Hannahville FACE Educator and 2005 Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year, Honored at NCFL National Conference

03/30/2005 - Secretary Norton Rejects Golden Hill Paugussett Appeal

03/23/2005 - Indian Health Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs Responding to Red Lake Reservation Tragedy

03/09/2005 - Chickasaw Astronaut John Herrington to Give Keynote Address at BIA FACE and Baby FACE National Training Conference

03/07/2005 - Interior Restructures Office of Hearings and Appeals To Focus on Indian Probate Cases

02/07/2005 - Assistant Secretary Announces W. Patrick Ragsdale As New Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

02/07/2005 - Trust and Detention Facilities See Increases Under BIA Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Request

02/07/2005 - Anderson Announces Initiative With GSA to Help Tribes Utilize E-Buy for Online Procurement

01/31/2005 - Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Dave Anderson Announces his Decision to Resign and resume His Entrepreneur Career

01/31/2005 - BIA is Among Major Sponsors of RES 2005

01/28/2005 - Anderson to Attend Boys & Girls Clubs of America 2005 Native American Summit


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