Witness list for hearing on Interior backlogs

Wednesday, October 3, 2007  

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on Thursday on backlogs at the Interior Department.

The following witnesses will testify:

THE HONORABLE CARL J. ARTMAN
Assistant Secretary, for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior

THE HONORABLE WILLIAM RHODES
Governor, Gila River Indian Community

THE HONORABLE RON HIS HORSE IS THUNDER
Chairman, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

THE HONORABLE ROBERT CHICKS
Vic President, National Congress of American Indian Midwest Region, President of Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, Co-Chair of the NCAI Land Recovery Task Force, President of the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes, President of the Great Lakes Intertrbal Council, Bowler, Wisconsin
Accompanied by: MR. JOHN DOSSETT, General Counsel, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC

MR. FRANK BIGELOW
Supervisor, Madera County Board of Supervisors

MR. DOUG NASH
Director, of Indian Estate Planning and Probating, Institute of Indian Estate Planning and Probate

The hearing takes place at 9:30am in Room 628 of the Senate Dirksen Building. A live broadcast will be available at http://indian.senate.gov.

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