public safety
By Santee Ross, University of Montana
Eastern Shoshone Business council member Ivan Posey attended the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing to testify on the one-year evaluation of the Tribal Law and Order Act.
A little fun fact for those Obama supporters, the president signed this act in July of 2010. Personally, I think Obama may have some Indian blood in him. Maybe his great grandma was a ... never mind.
Amid cutbacks, President Barack Obama is requesting to decrease the allocation to Indian Affairs by nearly $120 million in his proposed 2012 fiscal year budget.
However, Obama’s budget proposal, which was released Monday, also includes significant increases allocated to tribal programs in a proposed Strengthening Tribal Nations initiative.
In Obama’s plan, Indian Affairs – which includes the BIA and the Bureau of Indian Education – would get 2.5 billion, a decrease of $118.9 million from the previous levels, according to the Department of Interior.
