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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Las Vegas – 10 March 2025
1. Opening ceremony at RES 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Sampson, Oweesta Corporation spokesperson:
“Yeah, a portion is at risk. The Trump administration put a freeze on a lot of the funding. There’s, as I mentioned, there’s three programs once the solar for all. And that was frozen for almost three weeks.”
3. RES 2025 sign
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Sampson, Oweesta Corporation spokesperson:
“48 or so states all got big chunks of solar for all money… red state, blue state. And so a lot of the coalitions that we’ve been building include the Republican states, and they’re saying, hey, wait a minute, that’s benefiting us and our low income communities as well.”
5. People sitting in chairs
UPSOUND (English) Pilar Thomas, Quarles & Brady LLP spokesperson:
“Where did all my grant money go? Its being held up in litigation right now.”
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Las Vegas, 11 March 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Carly Hotvedt, Indigenous Food and Agriculture initiative spokesperson:
“We know that tribes have a unique relationship with the federal government and a government to government style relationship, and the federal government also has a trust obligation to tribes. And so we are hopeful that that relationship is respected."
7. People seated at panel
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Carly Hotvedt, Indigenous Food and Agriculture initiative spokesperson:
“The other issue that we’re seeing related to some of these potential federal office closures include Bureau of Indian Affairs agency offices, particularly ones that are located in western states that serve tribes with larger land bases. They administer the agriculture and grazing leases on those tribal lands. And if there is a delay in renewing those leases or administering them appropriately, there’s a potential that could significantly impact the agricultural producers on those reservations.”
9. People seated at panel
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jay Spaan, Self-Governance Communication and Education Tribal Consortium member:
“One thing we do hope is that with this administration, who has identified efficiencies and effectiveness as a key platform of theirs, also reducing federal bureaucracy, that self-determination, self-governance has proven to to achieve that. So for the last 50 years, we can show that tribes can use federal dollars more effectively, more efficiently than the federal government can."
11. Opening ceremony
12. RES 2025 logo
STORYLINE:
Tribal groups in the U.S. are working to figure out what comes next as the Trump administration pushes for funding cuts to federal grants and loans.
They were holding discussions on economic opportunities and challenges at the Reservation Economic Summit in Las Vegas.
Carly Hotvedt, a spokesperson of the Indigenous Food and Agriculture initiative said she was "hopeful" that the Trump administration’s "relationship" with tribal groups will be "respected."
Despite her comments, a directive from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk looks to close more than a quarter of Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, which provide vital services to Indigenous communities, among other freezes and staff layoffs.
Don Sampson, a spokesperson of the Oweesta Corporation, said he believed the funding freeze plan will affect both Democratic and Republican states.
More than 4500 attendees from the U.S. and Canada took part in the summit which was held between March 10-13.
AP video by Ty O’Neil
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