{"id":7433,"date":"2021-02-10T11:01:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=7433"},"modified":"2021-02-10T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:04:15","slug":"cronkite-news-biden-signs-tribal-consultation-and-nation-to-nation-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/02\/10\/cronkite-news-biden-signs-tribal-consultation-and-nation-to-nation-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronkite News: Biden signs tribal consultation and nation-to-nation order"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Advocates, lawmakers hail Biden pledge to respect tribal sovereignty<\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, February 10, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Sarah Oven<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. — Native American policy experts and Arizona lawmakers welcomed President Joe Biden\u2019s order calling for stronger relations with tribal governments<\/a>, with one saying it “goes right along with what Indian country has been asking for.”

<\/p>\r\n\r\nThe memorandum, signed Tuesday, January 26, largely restores earlier executive orders set under the Clinton and Obama administrations that aimed to strengthen nation-to-nation relationships and require greater consultation between federal and tribal governments.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\r\nBut one lawmaker called it a welcome change after the “Trump administration’s blatant disregard of the federal government\u2019s treaty and trust responsibilities to tribal governments” for the past four years. And \r\nGila River Indian Community<\/a>\r\n Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis thanked Biden for fulfilling a pledge from the campaign trail.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“When I met with then-candidates Biden and (Vice President Kamala) Harris last summer, they both told me that the Gila River Indian Community and Indian Country would have a seat at the table,” Lewis said Wednesday in an emailed statement. “This Executive Order, one week into the Biden-Harris Administration, sets the right tone for the work we need to do together as governments.”

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President Joe Biden signs the first of 17 executive orders on his first day in office on January 20, 2021. The tribal consultation and nation-to-nation executive order was signed on January 26. Photo: Adam Schultz \/ White House<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe \r\nBiden memorandum<\/a>\r\ngives agencies 90 days to come up with a plan to work with tribes, calls on them to appoint an agency point person to work with tribal leaders and requires annual reports on their progress.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\r\nIt largely reaffirms an \r\nexecutive order signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 2000<\/a>\r\nand renewed in 2009 by then-President Barack Obama. While it echoes the requirements of those orders, the Biden memo goes a step further by setting a timeline for action and quantifiable goals, said Traci Morris, executive director of the \r\nAmerican Indian Policy Institute<\/a>\r\nat Arizona State University.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“What I really thought was great was he literally put smart goals to it, you know, strategic measurable, time-oriented\u2026 because there’s benchmarks to go with it, in making sure that his new agency heads create or reaffirm their particular processes and get that information back to them,” Morris said Wednesday.

<\/p>\r\nRep. Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson, called Biden’s memorandum a welcome change after President Donald Trump, whose administration’s “blatant disregard of the federal government\u2019s treaty and trust responsibilities to tribal governments has harmed tribal communities for the past four years.”

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Under Trump, we witnessed significant sacred ancestral sites blown to bits & federal protections wrongly stripped from sacred tribal lands. My bill, the RESPECT Act will codify this requirement & ensure tribes are proactively consulted. #ProtectTheSacred https:\/\/t.co\/FGhdQ3qt9Q<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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<\/P>\r\n“We witnessed significant sacred ancestral sites blown to bits and federal protections wrongly stripped from sacred lands. In addition, we saw the failure of federal public health guidance during the pandemic result in the loss of tribal elders and community members,” Grijalva said in a statement, pointing to the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Native Americans.

<\/p>\r\n“Tribes must always have the seat at the table,” his statement said.

<\/p>\r\nRep. Tom O’Halleran, D-Sedona, said he was “heartened” by the Biden memo and that he is “looking forward to working with the president to safeguard tribal sovereignty at all levels.”

<\/p>\r\n“I have worked to ensure Congress lives up to its treaty and trust obligations and fosters positive nation-to-nation relationships,” O’Halleran said in an emailed statement.

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