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The department said the council would be reconvened as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to prioritize getting resources to Native American communities to address climate change, the economic recovery and the coronavirus pandemic.
“The White House Council on Native American Affairs represents an important commitment to strengthen Tribal sovereignty, uphold our commitment to Tribal Nations, and honor the United States’ nation-to-nation relationships,” Haaland said in a statement Thursday. “Addressing the systemic inequities that impact Indigenous peoples is the responsibility of every federal agency that will require an all-of-government approach across the Administration.”
“The White House Council on Native American Affairs will maximize federal efforts to support Tribal Nations as they tackle pressing issues, such as COVID-19 response, reopening schools and rebuilding Tribal economic development,” Rice added. “This inter-agency Council rei
Published: Thursday, April 15, 2021
Seward Peninsula, Alaska Photo credit: DCSL/Flickr
The Interior Department is pausing a Trump-era order that would have opened up millions of acres in Alaska to mineral development, including on the Seward Peninsula. DCSL/Flickr
Updated at 1:42 p.m. EDT.
The Interior Department today tapped the brakes on a last-minute series of Trump administration orders that proposed to open as much as 28 million acres of federal lands in Alaska to mining and other mineral extraction activities.
The lands at issue were included in five draft public lands orders signed by former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in January during the final two weeks of the Trump presidency.
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Some consider sacred the area surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
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In this April 24, 2015 file photo, pumpjacks work in a field in the Permian Basin near Lovington, N.M. Environmentalists and Native American activists say the Biden administration s review of the federal oil and gas leasing program should result in more protections for an area of northwestern New Mexico that s considered sacred. They have cited concerns about air pollution from venting and flaring at natural gas collection and processing sites, wastewater leaks and unchecked development in southeastern New Mexico s share of the Permian Basin.
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