COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
11:00 a.m.

OVERSIGHT HEARING ON:

• "Department of Interior's Recently Released Guidance on Taking Land into Trust for Indian Tribes and its Ramifications."

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

The Honorable Carl Artman
Assistant Secretary
Bureau of Indian Affairs
United States Department of the Interior
Washington, DC

Panel II

The Honorable Lorraine White
Chief
St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council
Akwesasne, NY

The Honorable Vincent Armenta
Tribal Chairman
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians
Santa Ynez, CA

The Honorable Hazel Hindsley
Tribal Chairwoman
St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
Webster, WI

The Honorable David Burnett,
Chairman
Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
Oakville, WA

Panel III

Ms. Jacqueline L. Johnson
Executive Director
National Congress of the American Indians
Washington, DC

Mr. Alex Tallchief Skibine
Professor
University of Utah
S.J. Quinney College of Law
Salt Lake City, UT

Mr. Kevin K. Washburn
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA