The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States,where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the U.S. Mint. These two agencies are responsible for printing all paper currency and minting coins,while the treasury executes currency circulation in the domestic fiscal system. The USDT collects all federal taxes through the Internal Revenue Service;manages U.S. government debt instruments;licenses and supervises banks and thrift institutions;and advises the legislative and executive branches on matters of fiscal policy. The department is administered by the secretary of the treasury,who is a member of the Cabinet. The treasurer of the United States has limited statutory duties,but advises the Secretary on various matters such as coinage and currency production. Signatures of both officials appear on all Federal Reserve notes.
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources. It also administers programs relating to Native Americans,Alaska Natives,Native Hawaiians,territorial affairs,and insular areas of the United States,as well as programs related to historic preservation. About 75% of federal public land is managed by the department,with most of the remainder managed by the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The department was created on March 3,1849. It is headquartered at the Main Interior Building,located at 1849 C Street NW in Washington,D.C.
Larry J. Echo Hawk is an American attorney,legal scholar,and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,Echo Hawk served under U.S. President Barack Obama as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs from 2009 to 2012. He previously served as the Attorney General of Idaho from 1991 to 1995,the first Native American elected to the position,and spent two terms in the Idaho House of Representatives. In 2012,he was called as a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As of 2022,Echo Hawk is the last Democrat to have served as Attorney General of Idaho.
The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum in the United States devoted to the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution group of museums and research centers.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA),also known as Indian Affairs (IA),is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior. It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives,and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for indigenous tribes. It renders services to roughly 2 million indigenous Americans across 574 federally recognized tribes. The BIA is governed by a director and overseen by the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs,who answers to the Secretary of the Interior.
Ada Elizabeth Deer was an American scholar and civil servant who was a member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and a Native American advocate. As an activist she opposed the federal termination of tribes from the 1950s. During the Clinton administration,Deer served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.
Woodrow Wilson Crumbo (Potawatomi) was an artist,Native American flute player,and dancer who lived and worked mostly in the West of the United States. A transcript of his daughter's interview shows that Mr. Crumbo was born on January 31,1912,so there is a discrepancy of the date until confirmation. As an independent prospector in New Mexico in the late 1950s,he found one of the largest beryllium veins in the nation,valued at millions of dollars.
For state legislator of Borth Carolina Alexander C. McIntosh see North Carolina General Assembly of 1899–1900
Executive Schedule is the system of salaries given to the highest-ranked appointed officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government. The president of the United States appoints individuals to these positions,most with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. They include members of the president's Cabinet,several top-ranking officials of each executive department,the directors of some of the more prominent departmental and independent agencies,and several members of the Executive Office of the President.
Walter Richard "Rick" West Jr. is the president and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. He was the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian,retiring from the position in 2007. He is also a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Oklahoma and a Peace Chief of the Southern Cheyenne. His professional life has been devoted to serving the American Indian community on cultural,artistic,educational,legal and governmental issues.
The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma dedicated to promotion and preservation of Oklahoma's history and its people by collecting,interpreting,and disseminating knowledge and artifacts of Oklahoma. The mission of the OHS is to collect,preserve,and share the history and culture of the state of Oklahoma and its people.
The MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians is a state-recognized tribe,located in southwest Alabama,with a population largely based in southern Washington County and some membership in northern Mobile County.
Kevin K. Washburn is an American law professor,former dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law,and current Dean of the University of Iowa College of Law. He served in the administration of President Barack Obama as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2012 to 2016. Washburn has also been a federal prosecutor,a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice,and the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission. Washburn is a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma,a federally-recognized Native American tribe.
Roger George Kennedy was an American polymath whose career included banking,television production,historical writing,and museum administration,the last as director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History,before the Bill Clinton administration selected him to head the National Park Service in 1993. He was especially concerned about expanding the service's educational role and moved to enlarge its presence beyond the parks via the Internet.
The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 authorized the Secretary of the Interior,the Secretary of Health,Education,and Welfare,and some other government agencies to enter into contracts with,and make grants directly to,federally recognized Indian tribes. The tribes would have authority for how they administered the funds,which gave them greater control over their welfare. The ISDEAA is codified at Title 25,United States Code,beginning at section 5301.
Horace Poolaw (1906–1984) was a Kiowa photographer from Mountain View,Oklahoma.
The Main Interior Building,officially known as the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building,located in Washington,D.C.,is the headquarters of the United States Department of the Interior.
Neal A. "Chief" McCaleb is an American civil engineer and Republican politician from Oklahoma. A member of the Chickasaw Nation,McCaleb served in several positions in the Oklahoma state government and then as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs under President George W. Bush.
John Canfield Ewers was an American ethnologist and museum curator. Known for his studies on the art and history of the American Plains Indians,he was described by The New York Times as one of his country's "foremost interpreters of American Indian culture."
