That Means:
Tackling key issues like...
Improving material conditions for Alaska Natives and the communities we call home.
Fighting for commissions to identify and correct past wrongs to chart a better future.
Advocating for tribal recognition and the ability for tribes to chart their own future with Native Corporations and land allotment.
That's Why:
Mary has done just that...
Mary sponsored the Native American Millennium Challenge Demonstration Act to provide economic development assistance to remote Alaska Native communities.
Mary cosponsored the Native American Child Protection Act to revise certain programs related to the prevention, investigation, treatment, and prosecution of family violence, child abuse, and child neglect involving Indian children and families.
Mary sponsored the Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act to allow the Alaska Native residents of each of the Alaska Native villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Alaska Native urban corporations and to receive settlement land.
Mary cosponsored the Tribal HUD–VASH Act of 2023 to provide rental assistance for homeless or at-risk Indian veterans and for other purposes.
Mary cosponsored the Strengthening Tribal Families Act of 2023 to amend part B of title IV of the Social Security Act to require States to comply with Federal standards established under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
Mary cosponsored the Requirements, Expectations, and Standard Procedures for Effective Consultation with Tribes Act to establish tribal consultation procedures for federal agencies.
Mary sponsored the Alaska Land Conveyances and Trails Act to designate the Chilkoot National Historic Trail to provide for a study of the Alaska Long Trail, and amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude certain payments to aged, blind, or disabled Alaska Natives or descendants of Alaska Natives from being used to determine eligibility for certain programs.
Mary cosponsored the Tribal Firearm Access Act to allow members of federally recognized Indian tribes to use their valid identification documents issued by tribal governments to obtain a firearm from a federally licensed dealer.
Mary cosponsored the Tribal Police Department Parity Act to ensure that Federal laws that enable Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies to access firearms apply equally to Tribal law enforcement agencies.
Mary cosponsored the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act to establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States to investigate the impacts and ongoing effects of the Indian Boarding School Policies.
Mary cosponsored the Urban Indian Health Confer Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to confer with urban Indian organizations regarding health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives living in urban areas.
