The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation (the Tribes) have timely appealed an April 22, 2004, letter of the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) which partially declined the Tribes’ “best and final offer” for an Annual Funding Agreement (AFA) for fiscal year (FY) 2004. The proposed AFA was for $2,075,313 in funding for construction …
On November 1, 2004, the Board of Indian Appeals (Board) received a notice of appeal from Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma (Tribe), through counsel, appealing an October 8, 2004, decision of the Eastern Oklahoma Regional Awarding Official, Bureau of Indian Affairs (Regional Awarding Official; BIA). The October 8 decision notified the Tribe that BIA intends to …
The Seneca Nation of Indians (“Seneca” or “Nation”) has appealed an October 31, 2011, decision issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service (hereinafter, the “Department”) declining Seneca’s request to add $3,774,392 to Seneca’s health services funding for fiscal year (“FY”) 2012. For the reasons discussed below, this decision …
The Appellant is the Walker River Paiute Tribe (“Walker River”), and the Appellee is the Area Director, Phoenix Area Indian Health Service (“PAIHS”). This appeal implicates PAIHS’ refusal to approve Walker River’s proposal dated September 19, 2013, for funding to operate a Contract Health Services (“CHS”) program under the auspices of the Indian Self-Determination and …
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This matter is before me on an appeal filed by the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma (the “Tribe”) from a Notice of Reassumption, issued February 10, 2011, by the Southern Plains Region Awarding Officer, Bureau of Indian Affairs (“BIA”), and concurred in by the Southern Plains Regional Director, BIA. The notice informed the Tribe that BIA …
