Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes<\/a>.<\/em>\r\n<\/p>\r\nIt is with great pride and respect that the thirty-five tribal nations from the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes stand in support and admiration of former Bay Mills Indian Community Chairman Bryan Newland, also past Chief Judge of the Bay Mills Indian Community. Bryan has earned a law degree from Michigan State University, and past Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Interior for Indian Affairs Bureau of Indian Affairs to be the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. \r\n
<\/p>\r\nBryan has demonstrated though his work the ability to continuously find ways to ensure that Indian Country\u2019s priorities are top of mind for policymakers and continuously cultivates key partnerships, on the tribal and federal level, to ensure that the needs of our tribal nations are addressed.\r\n
<\/p>\r\nMidwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes Dr. Aaron Payment President\/Chairperson of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indian said that Newland \u201cis an excellent choice\u201d for the position, adding \u201chis comprehensive expertise in Indian Affairs will serve Indian Country well.\u201d \r\n
<\/p>\r\nBryan Newland has gained the knowledge and perspective needed to serve effectively as Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. During his career, he has demonstrated that he will be an effective advocate for Native Americans in the Midwest and across the United States.\r\n
<\/p>\r\nWe are confident as the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Bryan will be able to continue to leverage his broad experience and stewardship in seamlessly orchestrating touchpoints for tribal leaders so that there is direct lines of communication with the decision makers that will continually build upon a meaningful relationships with Tribal Nations in assisting Secretary Haaland in fulfilling the United States\u2019 trust responsibility to the Federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages and individual Indian trust beneficiaries, as well as in maintaining the Federal-Tribal government-to-government relationship.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The thirty-five tribal nations from the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes stand in support of Bryan Newland to serve as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs in the Biden administration.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,1,14],"tags":[590,624,117,52,625,88,118,53,797,591],"class_list":["post-10629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","tag-aaron-payment","tag-bay-mills","tag-bia","tag-bie","tag-bryan-newland","tag-deb-haaland","tag-doi","tag-joe-biden","tag-mast","tag-soo-tribe","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/23\/bryannewland.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-2Lr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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