{"id":14543,"date":"2021-08-02T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T01:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=14543"},"modified":"2021-08-02T23:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T03:05:58","slug":"gaylord-news-funding-bill-passes-without-additional-support-for-tribal-justice-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/08\/02\/gaylord-news-funding-bill-passes-without-additional-support-for-tribal-justice-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaylord News: Funding bill passes without additional support for tribal justice systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_youtu-be\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QC1Kx-48ikE\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/plugins\/content-cards\/skins\/default\/content-cards-placeholder.png\" alt=\" - YouTube\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QC1Kx-48ikE\">\n\t\t\t &#8211; YouTube\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QC1Kx-48ikE\">\n\t\t\t<p>Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/s\/desktop\/46f6e5ef\/img\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"youtu.be\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tyoutu.be\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Indianz.Com Video: <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/QC1Kx-48ikE>&#8216;We can do more on McGirt&#8217; #HonorTheTreaties<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">House rejects extra funding to help tribal courts after McGirt ruling<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, August 2, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Kaitlyn Deggs<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Gaylord News<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gaylordnews.net\/\">gaylordnews.net<\/a><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nWASHINGTON &#8211; The House last week rejected a proposal that would have added $154 million to the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget to help tribal courts cope with an influx of cases after a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that expanded tribal jurisdiction.<p><\/p>\r\nThe extra funding was proposed by Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, as an amendment to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/bills\/hr4502\/BILLS-117hr4502rh.pdf\">appropriations bill<\/a> that included fiscal 2022 funding for the departments of Interior, Labor, Agriculture, Health and Human Services and more. Cole&#8217;s proposal would have offset the increased funding for BIA with cuts to environmental programs. <p><\/p>\r\nThat amendment, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.rules.house.gov\/files\/Rule_HR4502.pdf\">more than 200<\/a> proposed for the appropriations bill, was <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2021228?Page=3\">rejected Tuesday<\/a> in a group with 40 other amendments offered by Republicans &#8211; an outcome Cole had predicted in the Democrat-controlled House.<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;We may or may not prevail, but it&#8217;s really important that the discussion continues,&#8221; Cole said before Tuesday&#8217;s vote. The overall appropriations <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2021247?Page=1\">bill passed<\/a> 219-208 Thursday on a straight party-line vote.<p><\/p>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1099019935&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/indianz\" title=\"indianz\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">indianz<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/indianz\/we-can-do-more-on-mcgirt\" title=\"&#x27;We can do more on McGirt&#x27;\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#x27;We can do more on McGirt&#x27;<\/a><\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Indianz.Com Audio: <a href=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/indianz\/we-can-do-more-on-mcgirt>&#8220;We can do more on McGirt&#8221;<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nCole&#8217;s amendment was aimed at helping tribes in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/19pdf\/18-9526_9okb.pdf\"><em>McGirt v. Oklahoma<\/em><\/a>, a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that said most of eastern Oklahoma remains &#8220;Indian Country&#8221; under 19th century treaties that have never been rescinded, limiting the reach of state courts there.<p><\/p>\r\nThe McGirt decision, although welcomed by the tribes, created an unanticipated expense for tribal courts. As a result, tribes have been looking to the federal government for more money to improve tribal judicial infrastructure.<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;The tribes are spending tens of millions of dollars that none of them budgeted for, and this is not their obligation,&#8221; said Cole, a member of the Chickasaw Nation. &#8220;This is a federal government trust responsibility on Indian land.&#8221;<p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nDavid Hill, principal chief of the Muscogee Nation, in testimony to the House Natural Resources Committee last month, said the Muscogee Nation had taken steps to respond to the jurisdictional changes wrought by McGirt and urged the federal government to do its part.<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;However, there remains a critical role for the federal government in building capacity to manage the long-term post-McGirt workload,&#8221; said Hill. \u201cThe McGirt decision does not change the trust obligation or create any new federal responsibilities, it magnifies the systemic lack of investment.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nThe McGirt decision has drawn attention to Native American treaties that were never disestablished by Congress. The Treaty of 1866 ended slavery in the Cherokee Nation and granted freed slaves the rights of native Cherokees.<p><\/p>\r\nChuck Hoskin, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, testified to the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday about the Cherokee Freedmen and the issues that <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/07\/28\/nahasda-reauthorization-addressing-historic-disinvestment-and-the-ongoing-plight-of-the-freedmen-in-native-american-communities\/>Freedmen have faced in Native American communities<\/a>.<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;We are on a path of reconciliation, but we need to do more than acknowledge the legal principle of equality &#8211; we must seek to embrace the spirit of equality each day,&#8221; Hoskin said in his prepared testimony. &#8220;Because no nation can truly prosper when any of its citizens are victims of discrimination.&#8221;<p><\/p>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/08\/02\/gaylord-news-funding-bill-passes-without-additional-support-for-tribal-justice-systems\/uscapitol-12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14549\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14549\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/08\/02\/gaylord-news-funding-bill-passes-without-additional-support-for-tribal-justice-systems\/uscapitol-12\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03\/uscapitol-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"U.S. Capitol\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The U.S. Capitol serves as a headquarters for the legislative branch of the U.S. government. Photo by Indianz.Com &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/&quot;&gt;(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03\/uscapitol-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03\/uscapitol-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Capitol\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14549\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> The U.S. Capitol has reopened to visitors following the removal of fences and barriers that had been erected following the January 6, 2021, attack on the legislative branch of the U.S. government. Photo by Indianz.Com <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\nMarilyn Vann, president of the Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Tribes Association, testified at <a href=\"https:\/\/financialservices.house.gov\/calendar\/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=408112\">that hearing<\/a> that the tribe has an obligation to hold up its end of the treaties they made with the Freedmen.<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;Just as the U.S. Supreme Court determined the U.S. government did not have a unilateral right to break Article 3 of its 1866 treaty agreement with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the tribes do not have a unilateral right to remove treaty rights from the Freedmen,&#8221; Vann told the committee.<p><\/p>\r\n<EM>Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Cronkite News has partnered with OU to expand coverage of Indigenous communities.<\/em>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<STRONG>For more stories from Cronkite News, visit <A href=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/?utm_source=referral&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=client\">cronkitenews.azpbs.org<\/A>.<\/STRONG>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>Note: This story originally <a href=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/2021\/07\/30\/house-rejects-extra-funding-to-help-tribal-courts-after-mcgirt-ruling\/\">appeared on Cronkite News<\/a>.  It  is published via a <A href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative  Commons license<\/A>. 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