What are some of the main challenges and opportunities for change within the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
The BIA has a lot of challenges. We basically provide most services that a town would provide, but to 562 sovereign entities, with a combined service population of about 1.8 million people, spread over 35 states, 56 million acres, and served by 12 BIA Regional offices and 85 agencies located on reservations or near Indian Country. We build roads, process welfare assistance checks, manage forestry, agriculture, grazing and fish and wildlife programs. We lease land, probate estates, keep land records, operate irrigation projects, fight wild fires, and participate in water rights negotiations. We operate or fund more than 100 police departments, have an Indian Police Academy and manage detention facilities. We participate in the International Whaling Commission and some of our Regional Directors attend the IWC meetings around the world every two years. The scope of our responsibilities is just stunning. I believe we have the most complex mission of any federal agency. In many places, Trib
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