State-Tribal Policy

Reports

Policy Basics: Land Status of Indian Country

Approximately 56 million acres of land are held in trust by the United States for various Tribes and individuals. Just like a state has different types of lands within its boundaries — including...

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Policy Basics: Taxation Authority in Indian Country

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Policy Basics: Tribal Renewable Energy Development and Montana Energy Policy

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Medicaid Expansion in Indian Country: Improving the Health of Individuals and Communities

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Urban Indian Health Funding : An Unmet Need

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2023 State-Tribal Legislative Impacts

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Policy Basics: Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)

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Indigenous Representation in Redistricting

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Access to the Ballot: Uphold Democracy by Strengthening the Indigenous Vote

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Blog Posts

Equal Pay Day for American Indian Women Is Six Months Behind National Equal Pay Day

Equal Pay Day for American Indian women is September 23, 2019. It marks the amount of time an American Indian woman has to work into 2019 to make in wages what a white man made in 2018 for the same...

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Updates from the First State-Tribal Relations Interim Committee Meeting

On Monday, August 26, the State-Tribal Relations Committee (STRC) held its first meeting of the interim. During the 2001 legislative session, the Montana Legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 10,...

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Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming Food Systems

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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2019: Year of Indigenous Languages

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MBPC Announces Daliyah Killsback as New State-Tribal Policy Outreach Coordinator

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It is Time to Decolonize Data

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End-of-Session State-Tribal Legislative Updates

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Traditional Tobacco, Commercial Tobacco and I-185

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