Post by blackcrowheart on Oct 3, 2007 13:59:29 GMT -5
Tribes blast BIA on law enforcement
Monday, June 4, 2007
Tribal leaders criticized the Bureau of Indian Affairs at a House Natural
Resources Committee field hearing on law enforcement.
The hearing was held on the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
The committee heard from e Bureau of Indian Affairs director Pat Ragsdale and
two panels of tribal and Indian leaders.
Mike Jandreau, the chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, said the BIA has
failed to provide funds to staff a new $13 million jail complex. The
facility was supposed to open last September, Jandreau said, but nothing has
happened.
Lester Thompson Jr., the chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, said he
didn't get any new information from the BIA. "Bureaucratic lip service," he told
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Tribal leaders criticized the Bureau of Indian Affairs at a House Natural
Resources Committee field hearing on law enforcement.
The hearing was held on the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
The committee heard from e Bureau of Indian Affairs director Pat Ragsdale and
two panels of tribal and Indian leaders.
Mike Jandreau, the chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, said the BIA has
failed to provide funds to staff a new $13 million jail complex. The
facility was supposed to open last September, Jandreau said, but nothing has
happened.
Lester Thompson Jr., the chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, said he
didn't get any new information from the BIA. "Bureaucratic lip service," he told
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader.