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Commissioners raise alarm over BIA lease terminations, IHS changes and possible breaches of tribal trust obligations
Summary
Members reported lease terminations at Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, changes to Indian Health Service payment arrangements, and concerns that staffing and office closures could create trust issues or liability for the federal government.
Commissioner Williams told the commission that she had been informed of lease terminations affecting Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offices, including a lease at Pawnee that she said is scheduled to end in September and could result in the office’s closure.
She said the Osage Agency’s lease was also terminated and that the interim superintendent there had been laid off. Commissioner Williams urged commissioners to monitor tribal agency staffing because, she said, the federal government’s trust obligations to tribes can give rise to…
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