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If anyone is interested in how the shutdown is playing out in (native) Indian Country, multiple tribes are going to be butchering out part of their elk and bison herds. They are also worried about making sure federal employees working without pay are able to feed their own families.

https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/senate-committee-on-indians-affairs-hear-how-tribes-turn-to-natural-resources-as-federal-shutdown-deepens-food-insecurity

[quote]An emergency authorization from the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to slaughter 18 buffalo from the tribe’s herd will produce thousands of pounds of meat for community members facing uncertain food assistance during the ongoing federal government shutdown.

In addition, the Blackfeet Fish and Wildlife Department and the Blackfeet Commodity Office are moving ahead with an elk harvest to produce more meat.[/quote]

[quote]Mallott said recovery from Typhoon Halong, which hit Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, is targeted in remote areas without access to roads and hundreds of miles away from where people sought refuge during evacuation. Due to the shutdown, relief efforts are also relying on federal employees working without pay.

“We appreciate these workers’ vital contributions, and we want to see them be paid for their work, including back pay for their unpaid work these past few weeks,” Mallott said.[/quote]

Thankfully the IHS (Indian Health Service) had already gone through appropriations of funds and will stay at least mostly functional for another month or two. However, service contracts for things like fax services and Up-To-Date, a medical decision-making resource, have run out and are not being renewed, so IHS does without.

As a reminder, there is a substantial portion of inhabited tribal land where residents do not have access to electricity or running water. Also as a reminder, the US government is now failing to meet treaty obligations.

[quote]These are among many examples of how tribes across the United States are moving proactively to forecast an increase in demand for food aid and to steer some direction forward as confusion and chaos boil over each day the federal government remains shut down. And with each passing day, the shutdown continues to represent another day the federal government fails to meet its treaty and trust obligations to tribes.[/quote][/quote]

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