The U S Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA)is uniquely empowered with authority and responsibility to alleviate and correct problems in the Native American community. In conformance with their authority, responsibility and to alleviate injustice in the Indian community Senator Jerry Moran, (R-Kan) Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have proposed legislations Haskell Indian Nations University Act and Indian Boarding School Policies Act (S.761) respectively. Both bills relate to the injustices suffered by Indian student beneficiaries endured at Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) operated in control and authority of the U S Bureau of Indian education.
Research and development are critically needed at Haskell as proposed in the Haskell Indian Nations University Improvement Act and is the purpose of the Indian Boarding School Policies Act (S.761). Research and academic freedom are essential to achieve the crown jewel in education for Haskell as envisioned by Representative Tracey Mann (R-Kan).
There are over 100 Indian children interred in the Haskell cemetery who never returned home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=qWAUZkSADsEQmR4L&v=lLRlQhLuoR4&feature=youtu.be
The HINU Improvement Act and Indian Boarding School Policies Act (S.761 both reflect the belief of “We’re all related” as the findings and purposes pertain to inter-generational injustice in Indian education law and policy practiced at Haskell. The SCIA is empowered with the purpose and authority to alleviate subjugation practice at Haskell.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs officials and BIE officials do not deny the abuse of power and mismanagement of ward guardian breach of trust to Haskell student Indian beneficiaries. The BIA/BIE officials act with impunity due to the federal court decision in Jane Doe vs. Haskell, et al. The federal Indian law and policy failed to protect Jane Doe as well as the John Doe Indian beneficiaries receiving education at HINU. The unsafe conditions experienced by Jane Doe still exist at Haskell. A blind eye is turned to these unsafe practices as voiced by Representative Tracey Mann (R-Kan) and cited in the congressional investigation report pf 2024.
Congress has enacted Savanna’s Act Public Law No. 116-165 and is a model for amending the HINU Improvement Act to remedy the Jane Doe federal court ruling. Savanna’s Act was a bipartisan effort to improve the federal response to missing and murdered indigenous persons (MMIP), including by increasing coordination among Federal, State, Tribal and local law enforcement agencies. This coordination is critically needed in the enforcement, safety and prevention of the Haskell student education environment at Haskell.
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Indian treaty education rights are not gratuitous and Indian student beneficiaries should not have to surrender constitutional rights to receive higher education at the federal Haskel Indian university. Indian parents and Indian beneficiaries in Indian country should not have to fear for their children’s safety while asserting their Indian treaty rights to education. We will look forward to the bipartisan enactment of the Haskell Indian Nations University Improvement Act and the Indian Boarding School Policies Act (S.761(.
M’gwitch,
Steve Cadue
Kickapoo Nation Kansas
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