TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE DEMONSTRATION FEASIBILITY STUDY

Actions To Date

• 11/07/02 — Final Draft of DHHS Report delivered to Tribes for comment
• 07/26/02 — Draft Report – Tribal Self-Governance Feasibility Study
• 07/11/01 — Development of Discussion Outline regarding demonstration study feasibility report.
• 06/20/01 — Posting of Participants for meetings with: State Organizations, NGOs, and All Parties. Also: Presentation Slides
• 06/15/01 — Names and numbers of Tribes, organizations participating in consultation sessions – Statistics
• 06/14/01 — General National Consultation Summary Session – National Consultation Notes | Participants
• 06/07/01 — Consultation with Non-Governmental Organizations – Notes from Meeting | Participants
• 06/06/01 — Consultation with Organizations Representing States – Notes from Meeting | Participants
• 05/11/01 — Invitation to June 7 Consultation Meeting with NGOs (including Agenda).
• 05/11/01 — Posted on Web, an initial list of Laws relevent to Self-Governance.
• 05/09/01 — Posted on Web, a current, complete list of all 561 “Federally Recognized” Tribes and
  a list of the 67 Tribes with current Self-Governance Annual Funding Agreements under IHS.
• 05/08/01 — Invitation to Tribal Leaders for National “Wrap-Up” Session June 14, in Washington, DC. (AGENDA)
• 05/03/01 — Summary of Fourth consultation meeting held in Anchorage, AK.
• 05/01/01 — Summary of Third consultation meeting held in San Francisco, CA.
• 04/26/01 — Summary of Second consultation meeting held in Nashville, TN.
• 04/13/01 — Summary of First consultation meeting held in Minneapolis, MN.
• 04/05/01 — Final Agenda for Regional Consultation Meetings Set.
• 04/03/01 — Listing of DHHS Programs Categorized for Consultation Purposes, put on the Web.
• 03/19/01 — Invitations to as set of Regional Consultations went out to all 560 Federally Recognized Tribes.
• 02/23/01 — DHHS Program Inventory (under construction; programs being put up as descriptions are received).
• 01/29/01 — Request for baseline inventory of program information circulated; documents due 2/23/01.
• 01/26/01 — Data Questionnaire “field test”: TSSW members requested to submit completed sample questionnaires.
• 01/19/01 — “Working Final Draft” of the Study Protocol published on Web.
• 01/12/01 — Final comments regarding data collection document due datatabl.htm.
• 01/05/01 — First meeting (see Summary) of the DHHS Tribal Self-Governance Study Workgroup (TSSW) at which representatives of the Tribal organizations and IHS presented overview of history/development of Self-Governance.
• 12/08/00 — First all day draft protocol consultation meeting (including representatives from NCAI, NIHB, IHS-TSGAC and IHS-TSGAC Working Group, Sense, Inc. in addition to HHS staff).
• 10/25/00 — Comments on draft consultation protocol provided by SENSE to DHHS.
• 10/10/00 — Request for comments by tribal representatives on the draft consultation protocol, conveyed by SENSE, Inc. to tribal representatives.
• 10/05/00 — First teleconference with tribal representatives (includes ASL, ASPE, GC, OIA).
• 09/28/00 — Preliminary meeting among Department staff (of ASPE, ASL, ASMB, IHS, OIG, GC, ES, IGA).
• 09/21/00 — Informal discussions held in HHS, September, 2000; Office of Program Systems, ASPE, planning meeting.
• 08/18/00 — President Clinton signs bill into law.

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