Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Oversight Hearing on New Tax Burdens on Tribal Self Determination

Steve Mohan in Native Currents. Discussion »

WASHINGTON - The US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will be holding an oversight hearing on new tax burdens on tribal self determination.

Thursday 2:15 pm edt

Tribal self determination has to do with how tribes in the United States govern themselves. It is meant to change a lot of the policies that the United States government put on Native American tribes like the reservation system. It allows the tribes to enact many of their own laws that are different from the United States and even establish their own schools and universities.

Native American self determination is one of the more important issues that tribes face when it comes to dealing with the US government. Some parts of it such as cultural renewal and reservation development are always at the forefront, self determination has a large scope and touches every Native American in the United States today.

Witnesses

The Honorable John Yellow Bird Steele
President
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Pine Ridge, SD

The Honorable Ms Lynn Malerba
Chief
Mohegan Tribe
on behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes Inc
Nashville, TN

The Honorable Athena Sanchey-Yallup
Secretary of the Tribal Council
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
Toppenish, WA

Mr William Lomax
President
Native American Finance Officers Association
Washington DC

Mr. Aaron Klein
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Coordination
US Department of the Treasury
Washington DC

Ms. Christie J. Jacobs
Director
Office of Indian Tribal Governments
Internal Revenue Service
US Department of the Treasury
Washington DC

WHEN:     Thursday, June 14

TIME:     2:15 pm est

WHERE:   Senate Dirksen, Room 628

posted June 12, 2012 1:30 pm est