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HRG. 115–75 CULTURAL SOVEREIGNTY SERIES: MODERNIZING THE INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS ACT TO HONOR NATIVE IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION FIELD HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JULY 7, 2017 Printed for the use of the Committee on Indian Affairs ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 26–821 PDF WASHINGTON : 2017 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Mar 15 2010 09:16 Sep 15, 2017 Jkt 026821 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 S:\DOCS\26821.TXT JACK COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota, Chairman TOM UDALL, New Mexico, Vice Chairman JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming MARIA CANTWELL, Washington JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona JON TESTER, Montana, LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska AL FRANKEN, Minnesota JAMES LANKFORD, Oklahoma BRIAN SCHATZ, Hawaii STEVE DAINES, Montana HEIDI HEITKAMP, North Dakota MIKE CRAPO, Idaho CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO, Nevada JERRY MORAN, Kansas T. MICHAEL ANDREWS, Majority Staff Director and Chief Counsel JENNIFER ROMERO, Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel (II) VerDate Mar 15 2010 09:16 Sep 15, 2017 Jkt 026821 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\DOCS\26821.TXT JACK C O N T E N T S Page Field hearing held on July 7, 2017 ......................................................................... 1 Statement of Senator Heinrich ............................................................................... 9 Statement of Senator Udall .................................................................................... 1 WITNESSES Begay-Foss, Joyce, Director, Living Traditions Education Center, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture .................................................................................. 40 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 42 Campbell, Hon. Ben Nighthorse, U.S. Senator (Retired) from Colorado ............ 2 Martinez, Damon, Former U.S. Attorney, District of New Mexico, U.S. De- partment of Justice .............................................................................................. 33 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 33 Maybee, Dallin, Chief Operating Officer, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) ........................................................................................................ 37 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 38 Pratt, Harvey, Cheyenne-Arapaho Master Artist ................................................. 34 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 35 Shappert, Gretchen C.F., Assistant Director, Indian, Violent and Cyber Crime, Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice ......... 19 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 21 Stanton, Meredith, Director, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, U.S. Department of the Interior ....................................................................................................... 10 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 12 Woody, William, Chief, Office of Law Enforcement, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior ........................................................... 14 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 16 APPENDIX Baker, Hon. Bill John, Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation, prepared statement 74 Honanie, Hon. Herman G., Chairman, Hopi Tribe, prepared statement ............ 70 Josey, Eloise, Executive Director, Alabama Indian Affairs Commission, pre- pared statement ................................................................................................... 69 M’Closkey, Ph.D., Kathy Adjunct Associate Professor/Freelance Curator, De- partment of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, University of Wind- sor, prepared statement ....................................................................................... 59 Molloy, John, President, ATADA, prepared statement ........................................ 57 Montgomery, David S., Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Tribal Member, pre- pared statement ................................................................................................... 73 Montibon, Roy, CEO, Montibon Provenance International, Inc., prepared statement .............................................................................................................. 65 Ouellet, Kathi, President, Indian Arts and Crafts Association, prepared state- ment ...................................................................................................................... 72 Riley, Kurt, Governor, Pueblo of Acoma, prepared statement ............................. 60 ShortCloud, Aiden, Tribal Artist, United Cherokee Aniyunwiya Nation (UCAN), prepared statement .............................................................................. 67 Wright, Hon. James, Chief, Ma-Chis Lower Creek Indian Tribe and Nancy Carnley, Vice Chief, joint prepared statement .................................................. 66 Additional letters and statements submitted for the record ................................ 74–82 (III) VerDate Mar 15 2010 09:16 Sep 15, 2017 Jkt 026821 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\DOCS\26821.TXT JACK VerDate Mar 15 2010 09:16 Sep 15, 2017 Jkt 026821 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\DOCS\26821.TXT JACK CULTURAL SOVEREIGNTY SERIES: MODERNIZING THE INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS ACT TO HONOR NATIVE IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2017 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, Santa Fe, NM. The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:17 A.M. in the Santa Fe Indian School gymnasium, Hon. Tom Udall, Vice Chairman of the Committee, presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. TOM UDALL, U.S. SENATOR FROM NEW MEXICO Senator UDALL. Well, first of all, welcome to everybody today. It’s wonderful to have you here, and it’s wonderful to be at this loca- tion. I’ll talk about that a little bit further on, but I want to have welcoming remarks by Roy Herrera, superintendent of the Santa Fe Indian School, who is our great and generous host today. Thank you very much, Roy, for being here and being our host. Mr. HERRERA. Thank you, Senators and guests, for being here at the Santa Fe Indian School. My name is Roy Herrera. I’m the su- perintendent of the Santa Fe Indian School. On behalf of our board of directors, board of trustees, our students, our staff, I would like to welcome you to this campus, beautiful campus here in Santa Fe. Also, I want to thank you for being here today, and anything that we can do here at Santa Fe Indian School to increase your stay—better stay, we’d appreciate it. Thank you, Senators. Senator HEINRICH. You’re welcome. Senator UDALL. Roy, thank you. Thank you so much for that wel- come. And I would next like to recognize Marvin Trujillo. Marvin is a Marine Corps officer and Native veteran, and Marvin’s going to recognize us in a prayer. Is that correct? Are you doing the Pledge of Allegiance? Marvin’s doing the Pledge of Allegiance. We’ll all rise and take our hats off. [Pledge of Allegiance recited.] Thank you, Marvin. Marvin, thank you for that, and thank you for your service to our country. We really appreciate that. (1) VerDate Mar 15 2010 09:16 Sep 15, 2017 Jkt 026821 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 S:\DOCS\26821.TXT JACK 2 And now we’re going to stand again and recognize Santa Fe In- dian School student Jude Chavarria from the Santa Clara Pueblo to offer the opening prayer. [Opening prayer recited.] Senator UDALL. Thank you, Jude, so much, for that prayer. We really appreciate you giving that this morning. And good morning. I call this hearing to order. Let me first, be- fore we start with our panelists and our opening statements, I’d like to acknowledge the former chairman of the Committee, this Committee, this Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. He just happens to be in town, Senator Campbell. He was here, traveled down, and he saw it in the paper that we were holding this hearing. He has a lot of experience on this issue, extensive knowledge as an author of the Act. But he’s also a Native American jeweler himself. Look at that wonderful bolo tie he’s wearing. I’m sure he’s the one that created that. So Senator Campbell, I would ask you to come to the podium here. I wanted to have you give brief remarks before we did the opening and just talk to us about your experience and what you learned. So thank you for being here. As he’s making it over to the po- dium, I just want to say, when I started serving in the House, Sen- ator Campbell was a Republican; I was a Democrat. But we always had lunch once a month, and we tried to do everything we could to work through these issues, Western issues, which he cared very much about. So Senator Campbell, please. The microphone is yours. STATEMENT OF HON. BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL, U.S. SENATOR (RETIRED) FROM COLORADO Senator CAMPBELL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And by the way, thank you for complimenting me on my bolo. I didn’t make it. It is from a good friend who unfortunately