The other two tribal citizens in the House, who have made history as the first Native women in Congress, do not feel the same way. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico), who hails from the Pueblo of Laguna, and Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kansas), a citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation have been voting for the bills. "On the Navajo Nation in my state, people have been trapped in their homes without food, water, and medicine because the government has failed to fund the federal maintenance to plow snow from the roads," Haaland said in her first speech on the House floor last Wednesday. "The Department of Agriculture's Food Distribution Program on Indian reservations runs out of funding at the end of this month," she added. "This program provides nutrition assistance to nearly 90,000 Native Americans," she said of a program that will be discussed at the hearing. Haaland, who took part in a shutdown forum in New Mexico that drew tribal representatives on Saturday, has confirmed that she will join the Democratic hearing on Tuesday. It will be her first since joining the 116th Congress earlier this month. The Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing will be chaired by Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Arizona). He's the new leader of the House Committee on Natural Resources, whose Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs deals with Indian Country issues. The hearing takes place at 11am Eastern in Room HC-05 in the U.S. Capitol. It will be webcast by the Democrats on Facebook. The full witness list follows:BREAKING: Chairman @RepRaulGrijalva, @TheDemocrats leaders holding hearing on #TrumpShutdown impacts to Indian Country, natural resources on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 11 a.m. Eastern
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Panel One
Chairman Aaron Payment (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe), Chairman, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe and Board Member, National Congress of American Indians Mary Greene Trottier (Spirit Lake Nation), President, National Association of Food Distribution Programs on Indian Reservations Board Kerry Hawk Lessard (Shawnee), Executive Director, Native American Lifelines Panel Two
Jon Jarvis, Executive Director, Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity (UC Berkeley); Former Director, National Park Service Richard Ring, Executive Council Member, Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks Dan Ashe, Former Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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