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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 ...
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 ...
District of Columbia flag Badge of a Deputy U.S. Marshal. This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the District has six local law enforcement agencies employing 4,262 sworn police officers, about 722 for each 100,000 residents.
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 ...
One of the first two practicing Hindus of Indian descent to be elected to Congress. [4] [5] Raja Krishnamoorthi: Democratic: IL-08: January 3, 2017: Incumbent 8 years, 26 days One of the first two practicing Hindus of Indian descent to be elected to Congress. [6] [7] Shri Thanedar: Democratic: MI-13: January 3, 2023: Incumbent 2 years, 26 days
The Embassy of India in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of India to the United States. It is headed by the Indian Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Mohan Kwatra. India also has consulates-general in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle which are all associated with the Indian ...
The following groups claim to be of Native American, which includes American Indian and Alaska Native, or Métis heritage by ethnicity but have no federal recognition through the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Federal Acknowledgment (OFA), [3] United States Department of the Interior Office of the ...