{"id":288632,"date":"2025-11-05T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=288632"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:09:51","slug":"testimony-department-of-the-interior-written-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/11\/05\/testimony-department-of-the-interior-written-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"TESTIMONY: Department of the Interior written statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">TESTIMONY: Department of the Interior written statement<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Legislative hearing on S.107, the Lumbee Fairness Act<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, November 5, 2025<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n&#8226; PDF: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/11-05-2025-testimony-doi\/>Written Statement Only<\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe following is the written testimony of the <a href=https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/>Department of the Interior<\/a>. The federal agency did not send a witness in person to appear before the <a href=https:\/\/indian.senate.gov\/>Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a> at a legislative hearing on <a href=https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-bill\/107>S.107<\/a>, the Lumbee Fairness Act, on November 5, 2025.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n  \r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/11\/05\/testimony-department-of-the-interior-written-statement\/11-05-2025-testimony-doi-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288653\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"288653\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/11\/05\/testimony-department-of-the-interior-written-statement\/11-05-2025-testimony-doi-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/06\/11.05.2025-Testimony-DOI-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: Department of the Interior\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing on S.107, the Lumbee Fairness Act. November 5, 2025.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Written testimony of the Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing on S.107, the Lumbee Fairness Act. November 5, 2025.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/06\/11.05.2025-Testimony-DOI-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/06\/11.05.2025-Testimony-DOI-1.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: Department of the Interior\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288653\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/11\/05\/testimony-department-of-the-interior-written-statement\/11-05-2025-testimony-doi-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" data-attachment-id=\"288654\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/11\/05\/testimony-department-of-the-interior-written-statement\/11-05-2025-testimony-doi-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/06\/11.05.2025-Testimony-DOI-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1700,2200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Testimony: Department of the Interior\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing on S.107, the Lumbee Fairness Act. November 5, 2025.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Written testimony of the Department of the Interior. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Legislative Hearing on S.107, the Lumbee Fairness Act. November 5, 2025.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/06\/11.05.2025-Testimony-DOI-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/06\/11.05.2025-Testimony-DOI-2.jpg\" alt=\"Testimony: Department of the Interior\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288654\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Notice<\/div>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/hearings\/legislative-hearing-on-s-107-the-lumbee-fairness-act-before\/>Legislative Hearing on S.107, the Lumbee Fairness Act<\/a> (November 5, 2025)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read the written testimony of the Department of the Interior 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,"_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":[12,20,13,1,14],"tags":[5366,118,718,6360,213,91],"class_list":["post-288632","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-doi","tag-lumbee","tag-s-107","tag-scia","tag-senate","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1d5m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/30\/IndianzComDefaultImage.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288632","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=288632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288657,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288632\/revisions\/288657"}],"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=288632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}