Lakota woman goes for Senate confirmation hearing
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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The
Senate Indian Affairs
Committee holds confirmation hearing this afternoon for Lillian Sparks
as Commissioner of the
Administration for
Native Americans, which is part of the
Department of Health and Human
Services.
Sparks, who is Oglala Sioux and Rosebud Sioux, is an attorney who has served as
executive director of the
National
Indian Education Association since 2004. She also worked for the
National Congress of American
Indians and the
National Indian
Gaming Association.
The ANA provides financial assistance, training, and technical assistance
to tribes, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. It currently oversees grants for
the Esther Martinez Native Language program.
Along with the confirmation hearing, the committee will hold a
hearing on unemployment in Indian Country.
Committee Notices:
NOMINATION
HEARING on the nomination of Lillian A. Sparks to be Commissioner of the
Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services
(January 28, 2010)
OVERSIGHT HEARING on “Unemployment
on Indian Reservations at 50%: The Urgent Need to Create Jobs in Indian Country”
(January 28, 2010)
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