{"id":14712,"date":"2021-08-09T20:32:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T00:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=14712"},"modified":"2021-08-09T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T00:33:10","slug":"senate-confirms-bryan-newland-to-serve-as-assistant-secretary-for-indian-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/08\/09\/senate-confirms-bryan-newland-to-serve-as-assistant-secretary-for-indian-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Bryan Newland to serve as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"The following is the text of an August 7, 2021, news release from Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii)<\/a>.<\/em>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Brian Schatz<\/a> (D-Hawai\u2018i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a>, issued the following statement upon Senate confirmation of Mr. Bryan Todd Newland<\/a>, of Michigan, to serve as Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n\u201cMr. Newland has invaluable experience as a Tribal Leader, personal and in-depth knowledge of the issues facing Tribes, expertise in complex areas of Federal Indian law, an understanding of Interior\u2019s unique role in fulfilling and enforcing the federal trust responsibility to Native peoples, and a diplomatic and respectful approach to honoring Tribal sovereignty,\u201d said Chairman Schatz.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n \u201cIt is clear from the record that Mr. Newland has the qualifications to succeed in this role, and to serve this country with honor as one of the chief federal advocates for American Indians, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives,\u201d said Schatz.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nThe Assistant Secretary is the Department\u2019s highest-ranking Senate-confirmed official in Indian Affairs and has the solemn responsibility of maintaining the United States\u2019 government-to-government relationship with sovereign Tribal Nations. Newland\u2019s nomination received letters of support from more than 40 Tribes and Tribal organizations. \r\n

<\/P>\r\nSchatz led passage of Newland\u2019s nomination through the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a> last month.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Senate finally confirmed Bryan Newland, a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community, to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-video-entry.php","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":[20,1,14,334],"tags":[869,117,52,925,625,962,94,961,213,91],"class_list":["post-14712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","category-video","tag-117th","tag-bia","tag-bie","tag-brian-schatz","tag-bryan-newland","tag-btfa","tag-democrats","tag-ost","tag-scia","tag-senate","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/10\/bryannewlandasia.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-3Pi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14712","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=14712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}