President Biden has signed an executive order directing federal agencies, including the departments of Justice, Interior and Homeland Security, to create a strategy addressing what the President called a 'crisis of violence' against Native Americans
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday directing federal agencies, including the departments of Justice, Interior and Homeland Security, to create a strategy addressing what the President called a"crisis of violence" against Native Americans.
"Today, I'm directing federal officials to work with tribal nations on a strategy to improve public safety and advanced justice," Biden said at the White House's first-ever Tribal Leaders Summit. The President continued:"This builds on the work we did together on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, when we granted authority to tribes to exercise jurisdiction over non-Indian offenders who commit violence on tribal lands.
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