Bureau of Indian Affairs - Obama Presidency Oral History

...staff people from the DOJ and from the BIA . It was a very interesting structur...

...the tribal people are. There are twelve BIA regions, and our mission was to go ou...

...commission was doing its tour of the BIA districts, when all these other report...

...on Civil Rights did the same thing. The Bureau of Indian Affairs came out with a report calling India...

...Indian jails that were being run by the BIA neither safe nor sane, and all of thes...

...for me were when I went to a jail, a BIA -run jail. I'm trying to remember wher...

...that they couldn't use because the BIA was funding the jail that should b...

...use that facility, and the BIA didn't approve use of that facility...

...just like they do everywhere else. The Bureau of Indian Affairs at the time was doing a little bit o...

...actually was to get rid of the Bureau of Indian Affairs as it relates to law and justic...

...and justice issues. Why? Because the Bureau of Indian Affairs is not an expert in law and justice...

...say this—the current structure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs has an office of justice program that'...

...of the pilot process working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of Justice create...

...which are remnants of what the BIA gave the tribes back in the 1930s, al...