Media Share from ICT News on January 29, 2025 https://ictnews.org/news/white-house-backs-down-on-funding-freeze-for-now Stewart HuntingtonICT Native leaders hailed a move by President Donald Trump’s budget office Wednesday to rescind an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across Indian Country and beyond. “I am happy for every federally recognized tribe, as well …
Notice from Office of Management and Budget: OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded
Notice received on January 29, 2025 from the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget: OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded
COLT SUPPORT FOR TRIBAL EXEMPTION FROM ANY FEDERAL FUNDING FREEZE OR REEVALUATION OF SERVICES TO TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS AND TRIBAL CITIZENS
January 29th, 2025 Resolution: January 29, 2025, 2025-Resolution #01-2025 (Virtual) EMERGENCY RESOLUTION OF COLT SUPPORT FOR TRIBAL EXEMPTION FROM ANY FEDERAL FUNDING FREEZE OR REEVALUATION OF SERVICES TO TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS AND TRIBAL CITIZENS WHEREAS, the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT) was formally established in early April 2011, and is comprised of Tribes with large land base, including the Blackfeet Nation …
Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps (media share)
Media Share from CNN on January 27th, 2025 (By Alaa Elassar, CNN) We encourage you to read the article on the original website: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/us/navajo-detained-ice-indigenous-immigration-trump/index.html CNN — At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids …
COLT appears on The StoneZONE w/ Roger Stone, discusses RFK Jr. nomination (media share)
The Coalition of Large Tribes Executive Director, OJ Semans Sr., appeared on The StoneZONE to discuss the nomination of RFK Jr. (media share) (https://rumble.com/v6d584a-rfk-jr.-receives-major-endorsement-as-confirmation-gains-momentum-the-stone.html)
Letter: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s nomination to serve as the Secretary for Health and Human Services
January 22, 2025 Letter from the Coalition of Large Tribes Dear Chairmen Crapo and Cassidy and Ranking Members Wyden and Sanders, I write as Chairman of the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT)—an intertribal organization representing the interests of the more than 50 tribes with reservations of 100,000 acres or more, encompassing more than 95% of the Indian Country lands and …
COLT endorses the nomination of Governor Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior (letter)
Letter sent to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on January 16, 2025
COLT Welcomes the United States’ Statement of Commitment to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
January 14, 2025 AGENCY VILLAGE, SOUTH DAKOTA —— The Coalition of Large Tribes, an intertribal organization representing the interests of the more than 50 tribes with reservations of 100,000 acres or more, encompassing more than 95% of the Indian Country lands and more than half the Native American population, welcomes the statement issued today by the Department of the Interior …
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Chairman J. Garrett Renville delivers the 2025 State of the Tribes address
Media Share from SDPB on January 15, 2024: https://www.sdpb.org/politics/2025-01-15/video-2025-state-of-the-tribes
Advancing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
U.S. Department of Interior, 01/15/2025 https://www.doi.gov/blog/advancing-united-nations-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples Advancing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is the leading international instrument articulating the individual and collective rights of Indigenous Peoples. It recognizes that Indigenous Peoples have fundamental rights to freedom, equality and non-discrimination, as well as rights related to self-determination, …