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The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), headquartered in the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., and formerly known as the Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP), is a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior under the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. It is responsible for the line direction and management of all BIE ...
Congressional district Tribe Year Designated Party Congress Notes Kimberly Teehee (born 1968) Cherokee delegate: Cherokee Nation: 2019 Democratic: 116th 117th 118th: Appointed by Chuck Hoskin Jr. in August 2019 and approved unanimously by committee. Teehee was not seated during the 116th Congress or in any subsequent Congress. Victoria Holland ...
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...
The organization maintained an office in Washington, D.C., to act as a legislative lobby and liaison with the Board of Indian Commissioners and the Board of Indian Affairs. Established in 1911 and dissolved in 1923, the Society of American Indians (headquartered in D.C.) was the first national American Indian rights organization run by and for ...
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 is an organic act enacted by Congress under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution that formally placed the District of Columbia under the control of Congress and organized the unincorporated territory within the District into two counties: Washington County to the north and east of ...
District Term Notes Start End Length of service Tulsi Gabbard: Democratic: HI-02: January 3, 2013: January 3, 2021: 8 years, 0 days First practicing Hindu elected to Congress. Retired to run unsuccessfully for president of the United States. [2] [3] Ro Khanna: Democratic: CA-17: January 3, 2017: Incumbent 8 years, 26 days
The administrative building is owned by the government of the District of Columbia and has served as the home of various city offices since it opened in 1941 as a unified location for previously dispersed municipal functions. Currently, the building is primarily occupied by the Metropolitan Police Department; although the District of Columbia ...
IAS officer, former Cabinet Secretary of India. Also served as Home Secretary, Defence Secretary. 20th: Lalit Mansingh: 2001 2004 IFS officer, former Foreign Secretary and Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. 21st: Ronen Sen: August 2004 March 2009 IFS officer. 22nd: Meera Shankar: 2009 2011 IFS officer. 23rd: Nirupama Rao: 1 August ...