Courtesy photo by Gloria Rilatos
Tyee Rilatos stands with state Sen. Arnie Roblan in Roblan’s office at the
Capitol in Salem, Ore., after Rilatos’ testimony before the Senate Education
Committee on Feb. 10. Rilatos testified about what being a Siletz Warrior means
to him, the importance of the school’s Warrior head logo and the school’s right
to continue to use this logo.
Courtesy photo
Members of Altrusa International work with Newport Rotary members to
label and count classroom sets of dental kits for all students in K-6 in Lincoln
County. This project is generously funded with a grant from the Siletz Tribal
Charitable Contribution Fund.
CTSI Jobs
Tribal employment information
is available at ctsi.nsn.us.
Note: “Open Until Filled” vacancies
may close at any time. The Tribe’s Indian
Preference policy will apply. Tribal govern-
ment will not discriminate in selection
because of race, creed, age, sex, color,
national origin, physical handicap, marital
status, politics, membership or non-mem-
bership in an employee organization.
CTSI constantly is looking for tempo-
rary employees to cover vacancy, vaca-
tions, maternity leave and extended sick
leave. If you are looking for temporary
work that can last from 2-12 weeks, please
submit an application for the temp pool.
Budget, continued from previous page
Tribal governments and the U.S. Bureau
the Census to address federal data quality
and availability issues.
The request recognizes the long-
standing concerns of Tribal governments
to improve access to and quality of federal
data and information about Indian Country
to inform their decision-making and the
delivery of services to Tribal communities.
In addition, the request proposes
an increase of $4 million to continue
development of NativeOneStop.gov, an
information portal where Tribes can find
and access hundreds of federal programs
and services available to them.
The funding also supports regional
and local assistance to Tribes to access
services and information.
Sustainable stewardship of
trust resources
The BIA Office of Trust Services
(OTS) assists Tribes in managing, protect-
ing and developing their trust lands and
natural resources, which total 56 million
surface acres and 60 million acres of sub-
surface mineral estates.
OTS programs help Tribal landowners
steward these resources to protect their
cultural, spiritual and traditional uses and
enable Tribal governments to manage their
resources to generate revenue, create jobs
and protect the environment.
The FY 2017 budget request builds
upon the BIA’s efforts to support Tribal
management of trust resources that sup-
port Tribal cultures and communities’
economic stability. The request includes
an increase of $8.7 million for trust real
estate services to expand the capacity to
address the backlog of probate cases, as
well as for land title and records process-
ing, geospatial support needs and data-
base management.
The request also includes $2 mil-
lion to promote subsistence cooperative
management in Alaska, where Native
communities are among the most under-
resourced in the nation and whose cultures
are highly vulnerable to the impacts of
climate change.
The funding will promote Tribal
cooperative management of fish and wild-
life, while improving access to subsistence
resources on federal lands and waters.
The request also includes $2 million to
promote fishery hatching, rearing and
stocking programs across the country.
Increasing resilience of natural
resources in Indian Country
Tribal lands, by their geography and
location, are on the front lines of climate
change and vulnerable to its effects. From
coast to coast, particularly in the West
and Alaska, Tribes continue to experience
the damaging, sometimes devastating,
impacts of climate change – long-term
drought, intensifying wildland fires,
changes to flora and fauna that are integral
to their subsistence needs and cultures,
coastal erosion, rising sea levels – on their
environment and people, as well as to their
treaty and trust lands and resources.
Tribal governments face immense
challenges in planning for and responding
to the far-reaching impacts that climate
change is having or will have on their
populations, infrastructure, economic
development, food security, natural and
cultural resources, and local cultures.
The FY 2017 budget request provides
a $15.1 million increase over the 2016
enacted level across eight BIA trust natu-
ral resource programs to support Tribal
communities in sustainable resource
management to prepare for and respond
to the impacts of climate change.
Funds will provide support for Tribes to:
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Develop and access science, tools,
training and planning
Implement actions that build resil-
ience into their resource management,
infrastructure and community devel-
opment activities
It also will support Alaska Native
villages in the Arctic and other critically
vulnerable communities in evaluating
options to improve the long-term resil-
ience of their communities.
Indian settlements
The president’s FY 2017 budget
request for Indian water rights settle-
ments continues this administration’s
strong commitment to resolving Tribal
water rights claims to ensure Tribes have
access to use and manage water to meet
their domestic, economic, cultural and
ecological needs.
The Indian Affairs’ budget request for
Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements
is $55.2 million, a $5.7 million increase
over the 2016 enacted level.
In 2016, Indian Affairs will complete
the Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights
Settlement Act and in 2017, will complete
the funding requirements for the BIA por-
tion of the Aamodt Settlement, enacted as
part of the Claims Resolution Act of 2010.
The request also includes $10 million
to provide the Yurok Tribe in Northern
California with funds to acquire lands as
authorized by the Hoopa-Yurok Settle-
ment Act.
This one-time funding satisfies the
federal contribution for land acquisition
efforts by the Yurok Tribe and its partners
to conserve 47,097 acres of the Klamath-
Siskiyou ecoregion to be managed as a
salmon sanctuary and sustainable com-
munity forest.
Indian Affairs’ responsibility to the
federally recognized American Indian
and Alaska Native Tribes is rooted in
Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitu-
tion and subsequently defined in treaties,
acts of Congress, executive orders and
actions, federal court decisions, and fed-
eral policies and regulations.
The president’s FY 2017 budget request
of $13.4 billion for the Department of the
Interior reflects his commitment to meeting
federal trust responsibilities to American
Indians, conserving vital national land-
scapes across the nation, supporting the next
century of our public lands, and responsible
management of energy development on
public lands and offshore areas.
The Department of the Interior’s Bud-
get in Brief is available online at doi.gov/
budget and doi.gov/budget/2017/Hilites/
toc.html.
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