{"id":287463,"date":"2025-11-05T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=287463"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:14:07","slug":"testimony-ben-barnes-of-shawnee-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/11\/05\/testimony-ben-barnes-of-shawnee-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"TESTIMONY: Ben Barnes of Shawnee Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"
TESTIMONY: Ben Barnes of Shawnee Tribe<\/div>\r\n
Legislative hearing on S.107, the Lumbee Fairness Act<\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, November 5, 2025<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

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<\/p>\r\nThe following is the written testimony of Chief Ben Barnes on behalf of the Shawnee Tribe<\/a> and the United Indian Nations of Oklahoma<\/a>. Barnes appears before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a> at a legislative hearing on S.107<\/a>, the Lumbee Fairness Act, on November 5, 2025.\r\n

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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Notice<\/div>\r\nLegislative Hearing on S.107, the Lumbee Fairness Act<\/a> (November 5, 2025)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read the written testimony of Chief Ben Barns on behalf of the Shawnee Tribe and the United Indian Nations of Oklahoma before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,13,1,14],"tags":[5366,1907,718,127,6360,213,91,911,5632],"class_list":["post-287463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal-recognition","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-119th","tag-ben-barnes","tag-lumbee","tag-oklahoma","tag-s-107","tag-scia","tag-senate","tag-shawnee","tag-uino","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/30\/IndianzComDefaultImage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1cMv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287463","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=287463"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288660,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287463\/revisions\/288660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}