Oversight Hearing: Where’s the Trustee? Department of Interior Backlogs Prevent Tribes from Using Their Lands

Date: December 9, 2009

Time: 9:15 AM

Location: Dirksen

Room: 628

Witnesses

Mr. George Skibine

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs

U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC

Accompanied by: MS. VICKI FORREST, Deputy Bureau Director for Trust Services, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC

Testimony

Mr. Carl J. Artman

Professor of Practice, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Testimony

The Honorable Derek Bailey

Chairman

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Peshawbestown, MI

Testimony