Presidential Document2022-24170
National Native American Heritage Month, 2022
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Published
November 3, 2022
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October 31, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 212 (Thursday, November 3, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24170]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 212 / Thursday, November 3, 2022 /
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Proclamation 10490 of October 31, 2022
National Native American Heritage Month, 2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During National Native American Heritage Month, we
celebrate Indigenous peoples past and present and
rededicate ourselves to honoring Tribal sovereignty,
promoting Tribal self-determination, and upholding the
United States' solemn trust and treaty responsibilities
to Tribal Nations.
America has not always delivered on its promise of
equal dignity and respect for Native Americans. For
centuries, broken treaties, dispossession of ancestral
lands, and policies of assimilation and termination
sought to decimate Native populations and their ways of
life. But despite this painful history, Indigenous
peoples, their governments, and their communities have
persevered and flourished. As teachers and scholars,
scientists and doctors, writers and artists, business
leaders and elected officials, heroes in uniform, and
so much more, they have made immeasurable contributions
to our country's progress.
We must do more to ensure that Native Americans have
every opportunity to succeed and that their expertise
informs our Federal policy-making. That is why my
Administration is engaging in meaningful consultation
with Tribal leaders, particularly when it comes to
treaty rights, reserved rights, management and
stewardship of Federal lands, consideration of
Indigenous Knowledge, and other policies that affect
Native peoples. That is also why I appointed Secretary
Deb Haaland to be the first-ever Native American
Cabinet Secretary, and why more than 50 Native
Americans now serve in significant roles across the
executive branch.
Meanwhile, we are creating new jobs in Native American
communities and bolstering infrastructure in Tribal
areas. My Administration's American Rescue plan made
the largest-ever investment in Indian Country to help
Tribal Nations combat the COVID-19 pandemic and to
support Tribal economic recovery. My Administration's
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law secured more than $13
billion exclusively for Native communities to deliver
high-speed internet to Tribal lands, build safer roads
and bridges, modernize sanitation systems, and provide
clean drinking water--all while putting people to work.
Through the Inflation Reduction Act, we are lowering
the price of health care coverage and capping drug
costs for Indigenous families. We are empowering Tribes
to fight drought, improve fisheries, and transition to
clean energy as part of the most significant climate
investment this Nation has ever made. Those investments
include climate adaptation planning and community-led
relocation efforts, funding a Tribal Electrification
Program to provide power to unelectrified homes, making
Environmental Justice Block Grants available to help
alleviate legacy pollution, bolstering conservation
programs across the country, and restoring protections
for treasured lands that Indigenous peoples have
tirelessly stewarded, such as Bears Ears and the Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
We are also helping Native communities heal from
intergenerational trauma caused by past policies. Last
year, the Department of the Interior launched the
Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative to shed light
on the harmful history of forced cultural assimilation
at these academic institutions. We are investing in
Tribal language revitalization, protecting Tribal
voting rights,
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and working with Tribal partners to tackle the crisis
of missing or murdered Indigenous people.
As we look ahead, my Administration will continue to
write a new and better chapter in the story of our
Nation-to-Nation relationships. We will defend Tribal
sovereignty, self-government, self-determination, and
the homelands of Tribal Nations. We will support Tribal
economies, recognizing that Tribal governments provide
a vast array of physical infrastructure, social
services, and good-paying jobs that benefit their
citizens and surrounding communities. We will keep
fighting for better health care, child care, education,
and housing in Tribal communities. We will always honor
the profound impact Native Americans continue to have
in shaping our Nation and bringing us closer to the
more perfect Union we know we can and must be.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2022
as National Native American Heritage Month. I urge all
Americans, as well as their elected representatives at
the Federal, State, and local levels, to observe this
month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and
activities, and to celebrate November 25, 2022, as
Native American Heritage Day.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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