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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, will hold an oversight hearing on Impacts of Environmental Changes on Treaty Rights, Traditional Lifestyles, and Tribal Homelands, this Thursday, July 19, 2012, at 2:15 p.m. in room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
The purpose of this hearing is to examine the disproportionate impact that environmental changes have on tribal homelands and the resources available to mitigate and adapt to these changes.
Panel I
MS. JOANN K. CHASE, Director, American Indian Environmental Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
MS. MARGARET DAVIDSON, Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOAA Costal Services Center, U.S. Department of Commerce
Panel II
THE HONORABLE MIKE WILLIAMS, Chief, Yupiit Nation
THE HONORABLE TEX "RED TIPPED ARROW" HALL, Chairman, Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation
THE HONORABLE THOMAS DARDAR, JR., Principal Chief, United Houma Nation
MR. BILLY FRANK, JR., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
MS. MALIA AKUTAGAWA, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa
*ADVISORY* Thursday: Indian Affairs oversight hearing on environmental changes
Tue, July 17, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, will hold an oversight hearing on Impacts of Environmental Changes on Treaty Rights, Traditional Lifestyles, and Tribal Homelands, this Thursday, July 19, 2012, at 2:15 p.m. in room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
The purpose of this hearing is to examine the disproportionate impact that environmental changes have on tribal homelands and the resources available to mitigate and adapt to these changes.
Live video will be available at: http://indian.senate.gov
HEARING WITNESS LIST
Panel I
MS. JOANN K. CHASE, Director, American Indian Environmental Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
MS. MARGARET DAVIDSON, Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOAA Costal Services Center, U.S. Department of Commerce
Panel II
THE HONORABLE MIKE WILLIAMS, Chief, Yupiit Nation
THE HONORABLE TEX "RED TIPPED ARROW" HALL, Chairman, Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation
THE HONORABLE THOMAS DARDAR, JR., Principal Chief, United Houma Nation
MR. BILLY FRANK, JR., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
MS. MALIA AKUTAGAWA, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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