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Native America Calling: Trump job cuts hit Native education and sacred sites
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Trump job cuts hit Native American education, sacred sites
Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas lost nearly a quarter of its staff in the Donald Trump Administration’s mass terminations.
It’s one of two higher education institutions that rely on federal funds through the Bureau of Indian Education that are scrambling after the sudden and unprecedented job cuts. The reduction of more than a thousand National Park Service employees prompted worries over certain sacred and important Native treasures protected by federal workers.
Join Native America Calling to check on how the fast-paced federal job restructurings are affecting issues Native people are following.
Guests on Native America Calling
A.C. Locklear (Lumbee), interim CEO of the National Indian Health Board
Chuck Sams (Cayuse and Walla Walla), former director of National Park Service, an agency within the Department of the Interior
Pearl Yellowman (Diné), former vice president of college operations at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in New Mexico
Paige Willett (Citizen Potawatomi), former communications specialist at the Bureau of Indian Education, an agency within the Department of the Interior
Angel Ahtone Elizarraras (Wichita), president of Student Government Association at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas
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