[Senate Hearing 112-633]
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                                                        S. Hrg. 112-633

 
      THE PRESIDENT'S FISCAL YEAR 2013 BUDGET FOR NATIVE PROGRAMS

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                                HEARING

                               before the

                      COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS
                          UNITED STATES SENATE

                      ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS

                             SECOND SESSION

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                             MARCH 8, 2012

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                      COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS

                   DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii, Chairman
                 JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming, Vice Chairman
DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii             JOHN McCAIN, Arizona
KENT CONRAD, North Dakota            LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska
TIM JOHNSON, South Dakota            JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota
MARIA CANTWELL, Washington           MIKE CRAPO, Idaho
JON TESTER, Montana                  MIKE JOHANNS, Nebraska
TOM UDALL, New Mexico
AL FRANKEN, Minnesota
      Loretta A. Tuell, Majority Staff Director and Chief Counsel
     David A. Mullon Jr., Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel



                            C O N T E N T S

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Hearing held on March 8, 2012....................................     1
Statement of Senator Akaka.......................................     1
Statement of Senator Barrasso....................................     8
Statement of Senator Franken.....................................     7

                               Witnesses

Echo Hawk, Hon. Larry, Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, U.S. 
  Department of the Interior; accompanied by: Mike Smith, Deputy 
  Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Keith Moore, Director, 
  Bureau of Indian Education.....................................     2
    Prepared statement...........................................     3
Hicks, Hon. Michell, Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee 
  Indians; on Behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.    25
    Prepared statement...........................................    27
Roubideaux, Hon. Yvette, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Indian Health 
  Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 
  accompanied by Randy Grinnell, Deputy Director, Indian Health 
  Service........................................................     8
    Prepared statement...........................................    10
Sharp, Hon. Fawn R., President, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest 
  Indians........................................................    19
    Prepared statement...........................................    20
Shepherd, Hon. Robert, Chairman, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate; on 
  behalf of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association.......    35
    Prepared statement...........................................    37

                                Appendix

Bordeaux, Dr. Roger, Executive Director, Association of Community 
  Tribal Schools Inc. (ACTS), prepared statement.................    82
Causley, Cheryl A., Chairwoman, National American Indian Housing 
  Council, prepared statement....................................    58
Charts--Effect of Sequestration on Indian Affairs and BIA Funding 
  FY 1977-2012................................................... 47,48
Cherokee Nation, prepared statement..............................    55
Gipp, David M., President, United Tribes Technical College 
  (UTTC), prepared statements.................................... 85,88
Gschwind, Russell, Director, National Ironworkers Training 
  Program for American Indians, prepared statement...............    80
McNamara, Hon. Dexter, Tribal Chairman, Little Traverse Bay Bands 
  of Odawa , prepared statement..................................    62
National Congress of American Indians, prepared statement........    48
National Indian Health Board, prepared statement.................    67
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, prepared statement..    78
Zorn, James, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and 
  Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), prepared statement...............    64


      THE PRESIDENT'S FISCAL YEAR 2013 BUDGET FOR NATIVE PROGRAMS

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                        THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012


                                       U.S. Senate,
                               Committee on Indian Affairs,
                                                    Washington, DC.
    The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 4:35 p.m. in room 
628, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Akaka, 
Chairman of the Committee, presiding.

          OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. AKAKA, 
                    U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAII


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