Fred Cantu

This document outlines key recommendations from the Treaty Tribes of the Great Lakes and Pacific Northwest to the Obama Administration and the 113th Congress. It focuses on several strategic priorities: upholding federal treaty obligations and trust responsibility, protecting tribal natural resources and ecosystems, aligning federal agencies and programs for better coordination, ensuring stable funding for tribal treaty rights management, protecting and restoring water quality and quantity, and finalizing federal agency tribal consultation policies. The overall vision is to ensure treaty rights are understood, recognized, and fully implemented, thereby sustaining the tribal way of life.

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Hazard Mitigation Plan outlines the Tribe's strategy to protect health, safety, and economic interests by reducing impacts from natural, technological, and man-made hazards across the Isabella Reservation and Saganing District. Adopted in 2022, the plan aims for continuous, proactive vulnerability reduction through identified goals and objectives for high, medium, moderate, and low priority hazards such as infrastructure failures, severe weather (including hail, lightning, severe winds, ice/sleet storms, snowstorms), cyber crimes, energy emergencies, structural fires, tornadoes, riverine flooding, and hazardous material incidents.

The National Tribal Water Council's 2023-2025 priorities are dedicated to advocating for the water quality interests of federally-recognized Indian and Alaska Native Tribes. Key areas include strengthening tribal government-to-government consultations with the EPA, advancing tribal environmental self-determination and sovereignty, enhancing outreach and coordination with tribal nations, and supporting Alaska Native water protection and subsistence rights. The plan also focuses on supporting tribal positions regarding mining operations, enhancing technical support for water quality reporting, ensuring equitable distribution of CWA program funds, addressing emerging water contaminants, identifying water training and certification needs, and supporting climate change resiliency through Indigenous traditional ecological knowledges.

This document outlines the AHTW Court Program, a multi-phase initiative designed to support justice-involved individuals in achieving wellness and sobriety. The program's vision is to promote a balanced life through healthy living and cultural preservation, with a mission to engage in full-dimensional individual healing using the Seven Grandfather Teachings, Evidence-Based Practices, and therapeutic traditional healing. Key components include team members, confidentiality protocols, a structured court schedule with review hearings, and five distinct phases: Stabilization, Accountability, Realization, Independence, and Mastery, each with specific requirements for attendance, reporting, self-help groups, urinalysis screenings, and community service.

The meeting included a blessing and introductions of tribal leaders and staff. Discussions covered community support, cultural values, and financial distributions. The Isabella County received funds, with allocations primarily for roads. Support for programs aimed at elders and public schools was emphasized. The City of Mount Pleasant received funds for riverbank erosion and airport improvements. Isabella Gratiot Resd received funds for a special education program. Chippewa Township also received funds, mainly for road improvements. Other townships, including Deerfield, Denver, Isabella, and Nottawa, received funds for various projects. The Village of Rosebush received a grant for road reconstruction. The Village of Shepherd received funds for road projects and community development.