AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
BIA-OJS 2014, 2015 TLOA Report

<p>The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, Public Law 111-211 (TLOA) was designed to provide greater freedom for Tribal nations to design and operate their own justice systems, making Federal departments and agencies more accountable in their service of Native people and lands. TLOA specifically requires the BIA Office of Justice Services (OJS) to report on spending, staffing, and unmet needs for PS&amp;J programs in Indian Country. This report includes spending and staffing data for 2021, as well as annual cost estimates, for PS&amp;J programs. The spending displayed may vary slightly from enacted amounts due to reprogramming of funds by BIA or Tribes. To meet the reporting requirements of TLOA, this report equates spending with BIA-obligated funding for PS&amp;J programs and staffing with the filled Full Time Equivalent (FTE) positions in BIA-operated PS&amp;J programs plus estimates of FTE for Tribally-operated BIA-funded PS&amp;J programs. As a proxy for unmet needs, the report provides an estimate of total annual costs to operate appropriate-sized, fully staffed Law Enforcement andDetention/Corrections programs, as well as Tribal Courts, in Indian Country. This report does not include any funding made available for PS&amp;J purposes in Indian Country on a permanent or one-time basis by organizations other than BIA. Tribal PS&amp;J programs occasionally receive funding from Federal, State, and Tribal organizations other than BIA. The full scope of unmet needs cannot be addressed without considering non-BIA sources of funding, on which data are not readily available. To ensure consistency of data, this report uses models to estimate annual program costs and FTE needs across the board. Previous BIA efforts to use a web-based data collection survey tool accessible to Tribes on the BIA webpage, www.bia.gov, yielded information that varied substantially in degrees of completeness and proved difficult to verify. TLOA requires BIA to submit a detailed spending report and the methodology used to disburse funds for PS&amp;J programs administered by OJS. OJS allocates its recurring appropriations to 191 Law Enforcement programs; 96 Detention/Corrections programs (for 55 Tribes); 15 district, headquarters, and support offices; 230+ TribalCourts; and other BIA agency offices that support PS&amp;J programs. The BIA funds are spent either by BIA to deliver direct services or by Tribes when they contract services with funds transmitted to the Tribes through self-determination contracts or self-governance compacts, pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, P.L. 93-638.</p>

Tags: office-of-justice-services
Organization: Department of the Interior
BIA OJS Districts

<div>OJS (Office of Justice Service) is responsible for the protection of lives, resources, and property which lies at the heart of the BIA's law enforcement effort. BIA-OJS fully supports the Secretary's ongoing commitment to safe and healthy Indian communities. Under the direction of the Deputy BIA Director - Office of Justice Services, the Office of Justice Services (OJS) is responsible for the overall management of the Bureau's law enforcement program. Its main goal is to uphold the constitutional sovereignty of the Federally recognized Tribes and preserve peace within Indian country. There are a total of 9 district boundaries. For OJS District Boundaries that did not adhere to state boundaries, a buffer was applied to include specific tribal properties. More information about the Office of Justice Service Districts can be found here: https://www.bia.gov/bia/ojs/districts. Field Operations Directorate is responsible for administrating, developing, and implementing organizational objectives for the Divisions of Law Enforcement and Corrections. These programs integrate key national goals, priorities, and values. Field Operations programs also provide a great deal of technical assistance to BIA direct service programs and Indian tribes relating to public safety; and stress accountability and a commitment to continuous improvements to meet the organizations’ mission. The BIA-OJS-Field Operations Directorate is comprised of the following nine Districts: District I is located in Aberdeen, SD and covers ND, SD and NE; District II is located in Muskogee, OK and covers KS, OK, and TX; District III is located Phoenix, AZ and covers AZ, NV, and UT; District IV is located in Albuquerque, NM and covers CO and NM; District V is located in Billings, MT and covers MT and WY; District VI is located in Nashville, TN and covers the entire Eastern Region; District VII is located in Bloomington, MN and covers MN, IA, IL, MI, and WI; District VIII is located in Vancouver, WA and covers ID, OR, WA, and AK; and District IX is located in Sacramento, CA and covers the state of California.<br /></div>

Tags: bia, bogs, district-i, district-ii, district-iii, district-iv, district-ix, district-v, district-vi, district-vii, district-viii, divisions-of-law-enforcement-and-corrections, field-operations-directorate, office-of-justice-services, ojs, ojs-district
Organization: Department of the Interior
BIA OJS District VII

The mission of the Office of Justice Services (OJS) is to uphold Tribal sovereignty and provide for the safety of Indian communities by ensuring the protection of life and property, enforcing laws, maintaining justice and order, and by ensuring that sentenced American Indian offenders are confined in safe, secure, and humane environments. Ensuring public safety and justice is arguably the most fundamental of government services provided in Tribal communities. Authority: Authority to enforce laws, including detention of offenders, is derived from 25 U.S.C. Section 2801 et seq. (Indian Law Enforcement Reform Act), 104 Stat. 473, Pub. L. 101-379, as amended; 124 Stat. 2262, Pub. L. 111-211 (Tribal Law and Order Act). Authority to further the development, operation, and enhancement of Tribal justice systems and BIA Courts of Indian Offenses is derived from 25 U.S.C. Section 3601 (Tribal Justice Support Act).  Section 3611 tasks OJS with three functions: schedule and coordinate independent Tribal court reviews and complete these reviews annually, schedule training and technical assistance to Tribes and tribal organizations focusing on setting up and empowering Tribal courts; and study and conduct research on Tribal justice systems. Jurisdiction: The Office of Justice Services holds jurisdiction over crimes committed within Indian Country as defined by 18 U.S.C. '1151(a), (b) & (c): formal [recognized treaty boundaries] & informal [Tribal trust lands] reservations (including rights-of-way/roads), dependent Indian communities, & (c) Indian allotments held in trust or restricted status (including rights-of-way/roads). where no congressional grant of jurisdiction to state government over the Indian country involved exists. Programs address major Federal crimes as well as state crimes assimilated into Federal statutes, such as murder, manslaughter, child sexual abuse, kidnapping, rape, assault, arson, burglary, robbery, and the production, sale or distribution of illegal drugs. (Authority: Major Crimes Act - 18 U.S.C. 1153 & state code) Tribal criminal codes are also enforced. (Authority: tribal code or 25 CFR Pt. 11, if a CFR Court of Indian Offenses). The BIA-OJS-Field Operations Directorate is comprised of the following Districts. District I is located in Aberdeen, SD and covers ND, SD and NE. District II is located in Muskogee, OK and covers KS, OK, and TX. District III is located Phoenix, AZ and covers AZ, NV, and UT. District IV is located in Albuquerque, NM and covers CO and NM. District V is located in Billings, MT and covers MT and WY. District VI is located in Nashville, TN and covers the entire Eastern Region. District VII is located in Bloomington, MN and covers MN, IA, IL, MI, and WI. District VIII is located in Vancouver, WA and covers ID, OR, WA, and AK. District IX is located in Sacramento, CA and covers the state of California.

Tags: bia, bogs, district-maps, ojs
Organization: Department of the Interior
NEPA Review WebApp Helper

<p>In Figure 4 on page 20 of the INDIAN AFFAIRS NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT (NEPA) GUIDEBOOK 59 IAM 3-HDIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AUGUST 2012lists the principle components of the environment to consider; The Human Environment (1) Land Resources  (a) Topography (land forms, drainage, gradients)  (b) Soils (types, characteristics)  (c) Geology, Mineral and Paleontological Resources (2) Water Resources (surface and ground; quality, quantity, use, rights) (3) Air (quality/achievement, visibility) (4) Living Resources (a) Wildlife (terrestrial, aquatic, threatened/endangered)  (b) Vegetation (terrestrial, aquatic, riparian, threatened/endangered) (c) Ecosystems and Biological Communities (d) Agriculture (livestock, crops, prime and unique farmland) (5) Cultural Resources  (a) Historic and Archeological Resources  (b) Cultural, Sacred and Traditional Cultural Properties  (6) Socioeconomic Conditions  (a) Employment and Income  (b) Demographic Trends  (c) Lifestyle and Cultural Values (rural, urban)  (d) Community Infrastructure (public services, utilities)  (e) Environmental Justice (7) Resource Use Patterns  (a) Hunting, Fishing, Gathering  (b) Timber Harvesting  (c) Agriculture  (d) Mineral Extraction (e) Recreation  (f) Transportation Networks  (g)  Land Use Plans (8) Other Values  (a) Wilderness  (b) Noise and Light  (c) Visual  (d) Public Health and Safety  (e) Climate Change (Greenhouse gases).  (f) Indian Trust Assets  (g) Hazardous materials This web application contains layers to aid in exploring these issues and allows the user to add layers that may not be included. It also lets the user create a map to print. This application is not to be used alone and does not replace actual field inspections but is only a guide to help intial response.</p>

Tags: bogs, nepa
Organization: Department of the Interior
BIL and IRA Funded Projects, Fiscal Years 2022-2025

On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), which invests more than $13 billion directly in Tribal communities across the country and makes Tribal communities eligible for billions more. For further explanation of the law please visit https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684/text. These resources go to many Federal agencies to expand access to clean drinking water for Native communities, ensure every Native American has access to high-speed internet, tackle the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, and invest in Tribal communities that have too often been left behind. On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, marking the most significant action Congress has taken on clean energy and climate change in the nation’s history. With the stroke of his pen, the President redefined American leadership in confronting the existential threat of the climate crisis and set forth a new era of American innovation and ingenuity to lower consumer costs and drive the global clean energy economy forward. More information on this can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cleanenergy/inflation-reduction-act-guidebook/. This dataset illustrates the locations of Bureau of Indian Affairs projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act in Fiscal Year 2022, 2023, and 2024. The points illustrated in this dataset are the locations of Bureau of Indian Affairs projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act in Fiscal Year 2022 and 2023. The locations for the points in this layer were provided by the persons involved in the following groups: Division of Water and Power, DWP, Ecosystem Restoration, Irrigation, Power, Water Sanitation, Dam Safety, Branch of Geospatial Support, Bureau of Indian Affairs, BIA.GIS point feature class was created by Bureau of Indian Affairs - Branch Of Geospatial Support (BOGS), Division of Water and Power (DWP), Ecosystem Restoration, Irrigation, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Tribal Leaders Directory: https://www.bia.gov/service/tribal-leaders-directory/tld-csvexcel-dataset, The Department of the Interior | Strategic Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Project: https://www.doi.gov/emergency/shira#main-content

Tags: bil, bipartisan-infrastructure-law, bogs, inflation-reduction-act, ira
Organization: Department of the Interior
BIA Surface Inventory (Rocky Mountain Region), 2025

<p>Surface trust lands are displayed and summarized in a table by Tribal entity. A Tribal entity may be a federally recognized tribe or a constituent component of a federally recognized tribe. For each Tribal entity in the table the total trust acreage is given as well as the breakout of tribal trust and allotted trust acreage. Tribal trust lands are those where a tribe is the named landowner, and the tribe has a full percentage ownership interest in the tract division. Allotted trusts consist of two definitions of allotted. An allotted land may be a land where the tribe is the named landowner but only has a partial percentage interest in the tract division. An allotted land may also be one in which an individual associate of a tribe has any percentage ownership. A trust land would be any tribal, or allotted land that can be tied back the tribal entity. For any regional trust lands that do not have an identified entity interest or have a split entity interest that does not have a clear definition of the split, the trust lands are summarized in a row labeled undesignated. The Land Area Representation (LAR), BIA Regional Boundaries, Regional and BIA offices, as well as tribal entities without land are added in each region and adjacent territories when suitable to provide context. The tribal entity names are given by common use names instead of federal register names and may be further split into subdivisions within the recognized tribe. The Land Area Representation (LAR) is a combined dataset which creates a union of trust lands and reservation extents. The polygons are organized around tribal divisions and groupings and lack disambiguation between the trust land and reservation extent components. Due to the static creation date the LAR may not match different sources for components of the LAR. The Trust Asset and Accounting Management System (TAAMS) which is the system of record for trust lands is the source for records used in acreage calculations. &nbsp;(Last calculated May 2025) Tribal lands are lands where the tribe is the named landowner, and the tribe has a full percentage ownership interest of a tract division. Allotted lands are those in which the tribe is the named landowner but is a partial percentage ownership interest of a tract division, or an allotment may be individually owned by a tribe associate with any percentage ownership interest in a tract division. Trust lands are the summed totals of tribal and allotted interests for a tribal entity. LAR – Land Area Representation is a combined dataset which creates a union of trust lands and reservation extents. The polygons are organized around tribal divisions and groupings and lack disambiguation between the trust land and reservation extent components. TAAMS – The Trust Asset and Accounting Management System which is the system of record for trust land transactions and the source for records used in acreage calculations.</p>

Tags: indian-lands, rocky-mountain-region, trust-lands
Organization: Department of the Interior
BIA-OJS 2020 TLOA Report

<p>The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, Public Law 111-211 (TLOA) was designed to provide greater freedom for Tribal nations to design and operate their own justice systems, making Federal departments and agencies more accountable in their service of Native people and lands. TLOA specifically requires the BIA Office of Justice Services (OJS) to report on spending, staffing, and unmet needs for PS&amp;J programs in Indian Country. This report includes spending and staffing data for 2021, as well as annual cost estimates, for PS&amp;J programs. The spending displayed may vary slightly from enacted amounts due to reprogramming of funds by BIA or Tribes. To meet the reporting requirements of TLOA, this report equates spending with BIA-obligated funding for PS&amp;J programs and staffing with the filled Full Time Equivalent (FTE) positions in BIA-operated PS&amp;J programs plus estimates of FTE for Tribally-operated BIA-funded PS&amp;J programs. As a proxy for unmet needs, the report provides an estimate of total annual costs to operate appropriate-sized, fully staffed Law Enforcement andDetention/Corrections programs, as well as Tribal Courts, in Indian Country. This report does not include any funding made available for PS&amp;J purposes in Indian Country on a permanent or one-time basis by organizations other than BIA. Tribal PS&amp;J programs occasionally receive funding from Federal, State, and Tribal organizations other than BIA. The full scope of unmet needs cannot be addressed without considering non-BIA sources of funding, on which data are not readily available. To ensure consistency of data, this report uses models to estimate annual program costs and FTE needs across the board. Previous BIA efforts to use a web-based data collection survey tool accessible to Tribes on the BIA webpage, www.bia.gov, yielded information that varied substantially in degrees of completeness and proved difficult to verify. TLOA requires BIA to submit a detailed spending report and the methodology used to disburse funds for PS&amp;J programs administered by OJS. OJS allocates its recurring appropriations to 191 Law Enforcement programs; 96 Detention/Corrections programs (for 55 Tribes); 15 district, headquarters, and support offices; 230+ TribalCourts; and other BIA agency offices that support PS&amp;J programs. The BIA funds are spent either by BIA to deliver direct services or by Tribes when they contract services with funds transmitted to the Tribes through self-determination contracts or self-governance compacts, pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, P.L. 93-638.</p>

Tags: office-of-justice-services
Organization: Department of the Interior
ICWA Designated Agents (excel)

<p>The purpose of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is "...to protect the best interest of Indian Children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families by the establishment of minimum Federal standards for the removal of Indian children and placement of such children in homes which will reflect the unique values of Indian culture... "(25 U.S. C. 1902). ICWA provides guidance to States regarding the handling of child abuse and neglect and adoption cases involving Native children and sets minimum standards for the handling of these cases. The regulations implementing the Indian Child Welfare Act provide that Indian Tribes may designate an agent other than the Tribal chairman for service of notice of proceedings under the Act. This directory includes the current list of designated Tribal agents for service of notice: https://www.bia.gov/bia/ois/dhs/icwa.</p>

Tags: bia, bureau-of-indian-affairs, icwa, icwa-agents, indian-child-welfare-act
Organization: Department of the Interior
ICWA Designated Agents

<p>The purpose of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is &quot;...to protect the best interest of Indian Children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families by the establishment of minimum Federal standards for the removal of Indian children and placement of such children in homes which will reflect the unique values of Indian culture... &quot;(25 U.S. C. 1902). ICWA provides guidance to States regarding the handling of child abuse and neglect and adoption cases involving Native children and sets minimum standards for the handling of these cases. The regulations implementing the Indian Child Welfare Act provide that Indian Tribes may designate an agent other than the Tribal chairman for service of notice of proceedings under the Act. This directory includes the current list of designated Tribal agents for service of notice: https://www.bia.gov/bia/ois/dhs/icwa.</p>

Tags: bia, bureau-of-indian-affairs, icwa, icwa-agents, indian-child-welfare-act
Organization: Department of the Interior
BIA Surface Inventory (Western Region), 2025

<p>Surface trust lands are displayed and summarized in a table by Tribal entity. A Tribal entity may be a federally recognized tribe or a constituent component of a federally recognized tribe. For each Tribal entity in the table the total trust acreage is given as well as the breakout of tribal trust and allotted trust acreage. Tribal trust lands are those where a tribe is the named landowner, and the tribe has a full percentage ownership interest in the tract division. Allotted trusts consist of two definitions of allotted. An allotted land may be a land where the tribe is the named landowner but only has a partial percentage interest in the tract division. An allotted land may also be one in which an individual associate of a tribe has any percentage ownership. A trust land would be any tribal, or allotted land that can be tied back the tribal entity. For any regional trust lands that do not have an identified entity interest or have a split entity interest that does not have a clear definition of the split, the trust lands are summarized in a row labeled undesignated. The Land Area Representation (LAR), BIA Regional Boundaries, Regional and BIA offices, as well as tribal entities without land are added in each region and adjacent territories when suitable to provide context. The tribal entity names are given by common use names instead of federal register names and may be further split into subdivisions within the recognized tribe. The Land Area Representation (LAR) is a combined dataset which creates a union of trust lands and reservation extents. The polygons are organized around tribal divisions and groupings and lack disambiguation between the trust land and reservation extent components. Due to the static creation date the LAR may not match different sources for components of the LAR. The Trust Asset and Accounting Management System (TAAMS) which is the system of record for trust lands is the source for records used in acreage calculations. &nbsp;(Last calculated May 2025) Tribal lands are lands where the tribe is the named landowner, and the tribe has a full percentage ownership interest of a tract division. Allotted lands are those in which the tribe is the named landowner but is a partial percentage ownership interest of a tract division, or an allotment may be individually owned by a tribe associate with any percentage ownership interest in a tract division. Trust lands are the summed totals of tribal and allotted interests for a tribal entity. LAR – Land Area Representation is a combined dataset which creates a union of trust lands and reservation extents. The polygons are organized around tribal divisions and groupings and lack disambiguation between the trust land and reservation extent components. TAAMS – The Trust Asset and Accounting Management System which is the system of record for trust land transactions and the source for records used in acreage calculations.</p>

Tags: indian-lands, trust-lands, western-region
Organization: Department of the Interior