Interior Approves Land-Into-Trust Application for Three Affiliated Tribes’ Proposed Clean Fuels Refinery

ICTMN Staff
October 10, 2012
Tex Hall In a historic announcement today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said the agency has taken 469 acres of land into trust for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Na...

U.S. Treasury Clarifies New Guidelines on $1.8 Billion TED Bonds at NAFOA Investors Summit

ICTMN Staff
July 19, 2012
John Cross, associate tax legislative counsel with the U.S...

Interior Releases Tribal Economic Data Not Gathered From Tribes

Rob Capriccioso
July 12, 2012
WASHINGTON – Amid calls from the U.S. Congress for the U.S...

Congress Investigating Interior on Missing Tribal Jobs Reports That Broke Law

Rob Capriccioso
July 11, 2012
WASHINGTON – Democratic and Republican Indian affairs leaders in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate are concerned that the U.S...

Legal and Political Questions Surround Interior’s Decision Not to Release Tribal Jobs Survey

Rob Capriccioso
July 05, 2012
A long-awaited survey by the U.S. Department of the Interior on tribal jobs will not be released this year, even though federal law requires regular reporting on such matters...

Legislation to Give Tribes Bond Parity With States, Municipalities

Mark Fogarty
June 20, 2012
Sen...

No Child Left Behind Act: A Bust in Indian Country

Tanya Lee
March 07, 2012
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) kids have not made as much progress in reading and math under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) as politicians and educators had hoped, ...

Setting the Table for Pro-Tribal Tax Policy

Rob Capriccioso
February 06, 2012
WASHINGTON— The U.S...
Mark Trahant

It Sounds Reasonable: Just Cap the Spending. But Reality is Harmful to People and Budgets

It sounds reasonable: Why not just cap federal spending? Make every agency operate with the money that’s already there. This notion has common-sense ... yet it is impossible in practice....

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August 30, 2011

IHS Health Information System First Federal Agency Certified for Meaningful Use

ICTMN Staff
April 20, 2011
The Indian Health Service's health information system was certified for Meaningful Use , which essentially means its electronic health records met the Department of Health and Huma...

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