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House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs

Showing the 117th Congress (2021–2022), when this was the Indigenous Peoples of the United States. Back to the 119th Congress

139 bills referred in the 117th Congress

818 across the 8 Congresses on file, most in the 116th at 140. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 112th to 119th

Members

Served in the 117th Congress

Meetings

Hearings and business meetings in the 117th Congress

Members, 117th Congress 15

Everyone listed on the subcommittee in the 117th Congress, from printed hearings, the Congressional Directory and the official rosters.

Seat	Member	Role
D-NM	Teresa Leger Fernandez	Chair
R-AS	Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
D-MN	Betty McCollum
R-AR	Bruce Westerman
R-OR	Cliff Bentz
D-FL	Darren Soto
D-HI	Ed Case
R-CA	Jay Obernolte
R-AL	Jerry L. Carl
D-IL	Jesús G. "Chuy" García
R-CO	Lauren Boebert
R-MT	Matthew M. Rosendale, Sr.
D-NM	Melanie A. Stansbury
D-GU	Michael F. Q. San Nicolas
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 117th Congress.

Newest activity first. In the 117th Congress.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
HRES 846	Recognizing the maternal health crisis among indigenous women in the United States, which includes American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian women, recognizing the importance of reducing mortality and morbidity among indigenous women, and calling for urgent Federal funding changes to ensure comprehensive, high-quality, and culturally competent maternal health and family planning services are available.	Referred To	Dec 14, 2021
HR 6097	Indigenous Peoples Exchange and Economic Cooperation Act	Referred To	Dec 10, 2021
HR 6000	Cures 2.0 Act	Referred To	Dec 2, 2021
HRES 798	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationship between firearm violence and intimate partner violence and to honor the memory of Gladys Ricart and other victims of intimate partner homicide killed by firearms, and for other purposes.	Referred To	Dec 1, 2021
HR 667	Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center Access Improvement Act	Discharged From	Nov 17, 2021
HR 5855	North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act	Referred To	Nov 9, 2021
HR 5822	To extend Federal recognition to the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina, and for other purposes.	Referred To	Nov 8, 2021
HR 5688	People CARE Act	Referred To	Oct 29, 2021

Hearings, markups and business meetings, newest first. In the 117th Congress.

Kind	Subject	Status	Date
Hearing	Examining Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta: The Implications of the Supreme Court's Ruling on Tribal SovereigntyLongworth House Office Building 132455 documents 12 witnesses The Honorable Kevin Killer, President, Oglala Sioux Tribe The Honorable Bryan Newland, Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior The Honorable Jonodev Chaudhuri, Ambassador, Muscogee Creek Nation The Honorable Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Chairwoman, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah The Honorable Teri Gobin, Chair, Tulalip Tribes The Honorable Sara Hill, Attorney General, Cherokee Nation Ms. Mary Kathryn Nagle, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center Ms. Bethany Berger, Wallace Stevens Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law Ms. Carole Goldberg, Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita, University of California School of Law The Honorable Matthew Ballard, District Attorney, Oklahoma District 12 Mr. Mithun Mansinghani, Partner, Lehotsky Keller LLP The Honorable Whitney Gravelle, President, Bay Mills Indian Community	Rescheduled	Sep 20, 2022

Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.R. 6032, H.R. 6964, H.R. 7581 [Discussion Draft ANS], H.R. 8115, H.R. 8286, H.R. 8380, and H.R. 8387Longworth House Office Building 132477 documents 13 witnesses The Honorable Jesús García, Member of Congress The Honorable Derek Kilmer, Member of Congress The Honorable Jared Huffman, Member of Congress The Honorable Marilyn Strickland, Member of Congress The Honorable Russell Attebery, Chairman, Karuk Tribe The Honorable Jarred-Michael Erickson, Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation The Honorable Harry Pickernell, Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation The Honorable Joe James, Chairman, Yurok Tribe The Honorable Frances Charles, Chairwoman, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe The Honorable Joseph Rupnick, Chairman, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation The Honorable Arain Hart, Chairman, Susanville Indian Rancheria The Honorable Dan Newhouse, Member of Congress The Honorable Wizipan Garriott, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior	Scheduled	Sep 14, 2022

Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.R. 5549Longworth House Office Building 132458 documents 7 witnesses Ms. Elizabeth Fowler, Acting Director, Indian Health Service, HHS The Honorable Kirk Francis, President, United South and Eastern Tribes Sovereignty Protection Fund The Honorable Fawn Sharp, President, National Congress of American Indians The Honorable Jarred-Michael Erickson, Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Ms. Maureen Rosette, Board Member, National Council of Urban Indian Health Ms. Alberta Unok, President and CEO, Alaska Native Health Board The Honorable Johnathan Nez, President, Navajo Nation, Navajo Area Representative, National Indian Health Board	Scheduled	Jul 28, 2022

Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.R. 5444Longworth House Office Building 1334187 documents 6 witnesses Mr. Matthew War Bonnet, Boarding School Survivor, Rosebud Sioux Tribe Dr. Ramona Klein, Boarding School Survivor, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians The Honorable Ben Barnes, Chief, Shawnee Tribe Ms. Deborah Parker, Chief Executive Officer, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Dr. Janine Pease, Founding President and Faculty Member, Little Big Horn College Mr. James LaBelle, 1st Vice President and Boarding School Survivor, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition	Scheduled	May 12, 2022

Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.R. 437, H.R. 6063, H.R. 6181 [Discussion Draft ANS], S. 314, S. 559, and S. 789Longworth House Office Building 132441 documents 7 witnesses The Honorable Douglas Lankford, Chief, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma The Honorable Tom Wooten, Chairman, Samish Indian Nation The Honorable Donald Gentry, Chairman, The Klamath Tribes The Honorable Cheryle Kennedy, Chairwoman, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde The Honorable Sheri Buretta, Chairman of the Board, Chugach Alaska Corporation The Honorable Misty Napeahi, Vice-Chairwoman, Tulalip Tribes The Honorable Tamara St. John, Representative, South Dakota House of Representatives	Scheduled	Apr 27, 2022

Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.R.4715, H.R.5715, and H.R.670765 documents 9 witnesses The Honorable Joseph Byrd, Chairman, Quapaw Nation Mr. Patrick Strauch, Executive Director, Maine Forest Products Council The Honorable Clarissa Sabattis, Chief, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians The Honorable Kirk Francis, Chief, Penobscot Nation The Honorable Raúl Grijalva, Member of Congress The Honorable Jared Golden, Member of Congress The Honorable William Nicholas, Chief, Passamaquoddy Tribe The Honorable Edward Peter-Paul, Chief, Mi’kmaq Nation Mr. Charles Rose, Board of Trustees Chair, Tucson, AZ	Scheduled	Mar 31, 2022

Hearing	Strengthening Indigenous Communities Through Cultural and Environmental Preservation39 documents 4 witnesses Mr. Cody Desautel, President, Intertribal Timber Council The Honorable Michael Fairbanks, Chairman, White Earth Nation Mr. Chase Meierotto, Division Administrator, Treaty Natural Resources Division, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Ms. Elizabeth Azzuz, Secretary, Cultural Fire Management Council	Scheduled	Oct 26, 2021

Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.J.Res.55, H.R.441, H.R.2402, H.R.4881, and H.R.522157 documents 11 witnesses The Honorable Don Young, Member of Congress The Honorable Kaiali'i Kahele, Member of Congress The Honorable Jeff Fortenberry, Member of Congress Mr. P. Benjamin Smith, Deputy Director for Intergovernmental Affairs, Indian Health Service, HHS The Honorable Victoria Kitcheyan, Chairwoman, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska Mr. Walter Murillo, President, National Council of Urban Indian Health The Honorable Raúl Grijalva, Member of Congress Mr. Darryl LaCounte, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, DOI The Honorable Peter Yucupicio, Chairman, Pascua Yaqui Tribe The Honorable William Ailā, Chairman, Hawaiian Homes Commission The Honorable Julie Roberts-Hyslop, Second Chief, Tanana Tribal Council	Scheduled	Oct 5, 2021

By Congress

The committee's record in each Congress on file. Choose one to see the page as it stood then: its members, subcommittees and record. A dash means the official source has nothing that early, not that the committee did nothing.

Congress	Members	Bills referred	Became law	Meetings
119th2025–2026, sitting	14	40	4	18
118th2023–2024	0	52	6	26
117th2021–2022	15	139	7	16
116th2019–2020	12	140	8	20
115th2017–2018	13	127	8	17
114th2015–2016	12	127	7	13
113th2013–2014	12	103	10	7
112th2011–2012	12	90	9	0

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