Acronyms

ACP Affordable Connectivity Program

AFFORD Act Access to Fair Financing for Opportunity and Resilient Development Act

AI Artificial Intelligence

AI/AN American Indian and Alaska Native

AIRFA American Indian Religious Freedom Act

AMBER Alert America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert

BADGES Act Bridging Agency Data Gaps and Ensuring Safety for Native Communities Act

BEAD Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program

BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs

BIE Bureau of Indian Education

BLM Bureau of Land Management

CARE Principles Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics

CDFI Community Development Financial Institution

CEQ Council on Environmental Quality

ECWS Executive Council Winter Session

CSC Contract Support Costs

DOI Department of the Interior

DOJ Department of Justice

E.O. Executive Order

ED Department of Education

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

FAA Federal Aviation Administration

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FDPIR Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations

FPIC Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

FY Fiscal Year

GRATK WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge

H.R. House of Representatives

HEARTH Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership Act

HHS Department of Health and Human Services

HUD Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD-VASH HUD–Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing

IAA Interagency Agreements

ICEE Indian Community Economic Enhancement

ICWA Indian Child Welfare Act

IFR Interim Final Rule

IHS Indian Health Service

IIJA Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

ISDEAA Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

LGBTQ2S+ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic, and Two-Spirit

NACA Native American CDFI Assistance Program

NADL Native American Direct Loan

NAGPRA Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

NAHASDA Native American Housing Assistance and Self‑Determination Act

NAIHC National American Indian Housing Council

NARF Native American Rights Fund

NATHPO National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers

NCAI National Congress of American Indians

NCN Native CDFI Network

NDAA National Defense Authorization Act

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act

NHPA National Historic Preservation Act

NPCA National Parks Conservation Association

NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration

OVW Office on Violence against Women

PFAS Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances

PLSI American Indian Law Center Pre-Law Summer Institute

S. Senate

SBA Small Business Administration

SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

STCJ Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction

TBCP Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program

TCE Traditional Cultural Expressions

TCUs Tribal Colleges and Universities

TDHEs Tribally Designated Housing Entities

THPO Tribal Historic Preservation Officer

TIBC Tribal Interior Budget Council

TK Indigenous Traditional Knowledge

TSCP Tribal Supreme Court Project

TSG Tribal Self-GovernanceTWS The Wilderness Society

U.N. United Nations

UNDRIP U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

UNPFII United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

USDA United States Department of Agriculture

VA Department of Veterans Affairs

VAW Violence Against Women

VAWA Violence Against Women Act

WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization

WOTUS Waters of the United States