{"id":18111,"date":"2021-11-15T14:47:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=18111"},"modified":"2021-11-16T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T19:19:34","slug":"federal-agencies-collaborate-on-effort-to-protect-tribal-treaty-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/11\/15\/federal-agencies-collaborate-on-effort-to-protect-tribal-treaty-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal agencies collaborate on effort to protect tribal treaty rights"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Lone<\/a>
The Lone Pine Treaty Fishing Access Site is one of 31 sites along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington where citizens of treaty tribes can exercise their fishing rights. Photo: Tami A Heilemann \/ U.S. Department of the Interior<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n
Interior Department, Federal Partners\u202fCommit to Protect Tribal Treaty Rights<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nThe following is the text of a November 15, 2021, news release from the Department of the Interior<\/a>.<\/em>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. — During today\u2019s White House Tribal Nations Summit, President Biden announced that the Department of the Interior and 16 other federal agencies have formally committed to protecting Tribal treaty rights in agency policymaking and regulatory processes.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)<\/a> affirms the federal government’s commitment to enhancing interagency coordination and collaboration to protect treaty rights and to fully implement federal government treaty obligations. In addition to the Interior Department, the MOU was signed by the Departments of Agriculture, Justice, Defense, Commerce, Education, Energy, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, State, Transportation, Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency, Council on Environmental Quality, Office of Personnel Management, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.\r\n

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<\/p>\r\n\u201cTribal Nations entered into treaties, in part, to protect their way of life and inherent rights to natural resources of cultural, economic, and subsistence importance,\u201d said Secretary Deb Haaland. \u201cIt is our obligation to honor these treaty rights and incorporate Tribal interests into our decision-making, so that Tribal rights regarding everything from hunting and fishing to health care and education are protected.\u201d\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe MOU commits the agencies to working together to consult and coordinate with federally recognized Tribes on:\r\n

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