native Americans Looked at the shutdown government on Friday and prepared for damage to health care, education, infrastructure and funds funded Washington The treaties were killed more than a century ago.
Tribal countries, with casinos, oil and gas leases and other independent revenue sources, said they expect to maintain operations for several months. More dependent tribes on government money were already provoking workers.
Many tribal leaders said that they feared that the Trump administration used the shutdown to keep federal workers, to ensure that trust and treaty responsibilities were honored. The US had agreed to protect the safety, health and education of tribal citizens in exchange for ending its land several decades ago.
Closed museums and children’s services
Pyramid Lake Pyute Tribes outside Reno, Nevada provoked at least 25 employees starting on October 1 and discontinued services for native children in their museums and cultural centers, higher education departments, and public school systems.
It said that the closures would be temporary, but even if the shutdown is finished, it may stop more.
“As the government’s shutdown continues, other departments may be limited in operation,” Chairman Steven Wadsworth wrote to the tribal members in a letter. “These furls are necessary to ensure continuous operation of public safety like police, EMS and food banks.”
Sorting is coming?
People across the Indian country were concerned that the Trump administration would use a shutdown to close federal workers who maintain their treaty rights.
“I am very nervous about this,” Liz CarrThe vice-president for inter-governmental relations for the cedar rock coalition, which helps tribes develop health care, self-governance and land management policies.
chairman Donald Trump And his now-formal advisor Elon Musk called for the General Services Administration to abolish the leases organized by the 7,500-old federal offices in the country, including 25 regional offices of the bureau of Indian Affairs.
During the Biden administration, Carr was appointed as the first tribal advisor of the management and budget office. Carr said that he was instructed to resign by the new administration and the situation is incomplete. He said that there is a lack of understanding of confidence and treaty responsibilities in the agency and the White House.
He said, “I can consider some of those programs either a dei or any kind of waste. Then they come back to finish those programs and people are not able to return those services and distribute those services,” he said. “And the tribes do not go anywhere.”
According to the agency, tribes pass through BIA regional offices to approve road projects and law enforcement funding and 15 BIA offices in 38 states. Federal employees who protect life and property are exempted from shutdown, but BIA law enforcement officers in the department will be probably worked without payment because the way the funds are approved.
Damaged trust
The HHS contingency scheme states that a department within the Indian Health Services, Health and Human Services provides health care to the original Americans and Alaska original inhabitants and says funded and operational, HHS contingency scheme.
However, hundreds of health care centers and clinics in that country which are owned and managed to tribal countries, but federally funded is a different case.
Tribes assisting agencies have already stopped Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentWhich conducts Indian housing block grants and federal highway administration, which conducts tribal transport programs.
The National Association of Tribal Historic Principal Officers – A National Organization of tribal workers dedicated to the protection of indigenous traditions and cultures – is asking the federal government to stop projects such as oil and gas development, requiring consultation with tribal countries.
The Executive Director of the Association, Dr. Valerie Grusing said that the government legally needs to consult tribes on projects, and this could not happen without the necessary federal employees on the job.
“Projects should be resumed only when agencies are fully employees and someone has to consult with tribes,” he said.