This Week at Interior December 13, 2024

This Week: Interior hosts the final White House Tribal Nations Summit of the Biden-Harris administration; President Biden establishes the Carlisle Indian Boarding School National Monument as the 432nd addition to the National Park System; Secretary Haaland announces new agreements with the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to preserve federal Indian boarding school survivor stories; the Departments of the Interior and Justice publish best practices to improve media coverage on the crises of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples and human trafficking; the Administration releases a 10-year National Plan on Native Language Revitalization; Secretary Haaland announces that 400 co-stewardship agreements have been signed by the Biden-Harris administration with Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations and consortiums; Secretary Haaland and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams celebrate the establishment of Southern Maryland Woodlands National Wildlife Refuge as the 573rd and newest unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System; Bureau of Indian Education Director Tony Dearman joins a celebration to break ground on a campus modernization project at Many Farms High School on the Navajo Nation in Arizona; U.S. Geological Survey scientists make over 800 presentations at a major gathering of Earth and environmental scientists; and we’re marking International Mountain Day with our social media Picture of the Week! Make sure you follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube!

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