{"id":7247,"date":"2021-02-04T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T22:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=7247"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T22:28:09","slug":"tribes-are-hurting-sen-catherine-cortez-masto-d-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/02\/04\/tribes-are-hurting-sen-catherine-cortez-masto-d-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tribes are hurting’: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada)"},"content":{"rendered":"Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto<\/a> (D-Nevada) speaks in support of increased COVID-19 relief and additional funding for tribal nations on February 3, 2021.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“In Nevada and across the country, our tribes are hurting,” said Masto. “They are \r\ntrying to do too much with far, far too little. Some of them are still \r\nunder lockdown, desperate to protect elders — often the gatekeepers of rich Native \r\nlanguages and cultures — from the impact of the virus that they see is \r\ndevastating their communities, and many are struggling to keep business \r\ndoors open. All of them are stretched too thin.”\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“Tribes were suffering from unstable funding streams and budget shortfalls even before the coronavirus pandemic affected their economies,” added Masto, who serves on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a>. “Now on shoestring budgets — with staffing levels that were insufficient even before the pandemic hit — they are trying to address the myriad urgent needs of their communities.”\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThis week, the U.S. Senate<\/a> is taking up legislation to help implement President Joe Biden\u2019s so-called American Rescue Plan<\/a>. According to Democrats, it provides more than $28 billion in investments<\/a> for health care, education, housing and other programs serving Indian Country and Native communities.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“The federal government absolutely has to do more to support these efforts and uphold the federal trust responsibility. It can help tribes navigate the federal bureaucracy and ensure that funds allocated to tribal priorities actually get into the hands of those who need them,” said Masto.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThumbnail photo from Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a>\r\n\"catherinecortezmasto\"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“In Nevada and across the country, our tribes are hurting,” said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada) in calling for additional COVID-19 relief and resources for Indian Country.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7248,"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":[19,20,1,14,334],"tags":[869,633,5,94,521,213,91],"class_list":["post-7247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","category-video","tag-117th","tag-catherine-cortez-masto","tag-coronavirus","tag-democrats","tag-nevada","tag-scia","tag-senate","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/04\/catherinecortezmasto.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1ST","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247","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=7247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}