• Develop, in consultation with Native Sovereign Nations, a strategic Native American education plan that addresses issues of curriculum (including ensuring that Native students can receive teaching on Native language and culture, English, math, science, Native American history, and other history), facilities, teacher training and recruitment, and school funding; • Make recommendations to ensure that school-lunch programs and after-school care are adequately provided in Native American communities, especially economically disadvantaged communities; • Create a proposal for modernizing, repairing, and reconstructing Bureau of Indian Education and Tribal Schools, so that Native students have an equal education opportunity and appropriate environment for learning, including traditional cultural knowledge as well as the technologies necessary to promote career opportunities; and • Extend Impact Aid to BIE and Indian Schools to ensure full and fair funding of treaty and trust responsibilities for Indian education. Section 12. Repatriation of Native Remains. The Secretaries of the Interior and the Army shall collaborate to swiftly repatriate Native remains, including any Native student remains from any U.S. government or government-sponsored boarding schools, in a culturally appropriate manner, upon request of the student’s family or Native Sovereign Nation. To the full extent practicable and permitted by law, the Secretaries shall also require private education institutions to develop expeditious programs to repatriate Native remains as a condition of federal funding. Section 13. Improving Indian Health Care, Health Status, Women’s Reproductive Health Care, Native Longevity, and Nutrition. To address the low life expectancy and poor health status for Native Americans, particularly in the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain, and Navajo regions, the Departments of Interior, Health and Human Services (including IHS, CDC, SAMSHA HRSA, and CMS), Veteran’s Affairs, Agriculture, and Housing and Urban Development are directed to develop, in consultation with Native Sovereign Nations, a plan to meet annually at a National Indian Health Care and Wellness Summit to develop a strategy to improve Native American life expectancy, health care, health status, and living resources, with particular attention to (1) the challenges facing Native American elders; (2) the need for improvements in Native American nutrition; (3) the promotion of innovative programs to improve women’s reproductive health care, maternal and infant wellness; (4) comprehensive community-wellness models, including youth-wellness models, to provide a full spectrum of inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, and alcohol and substance-use counseling, suicide prevention, intervention and treatment, and (5) an alternative funding plan for Indian Health Care Facilities, including joint venture and ISDEAA section 105(L). Section 14. Economic Development. Consistent with the principles of Indian self-determination and economic self-sufficiency, the Secretary of the Interior shall promulgate any regulations needed to update and modernize the Federal Trader License Regulations and to preempt state laws that result in duplicate, excessive, or unnecessary regulation and taxation, or otherwise burden Indian commerce. As necessary, the Secretary of the Interior shall collaborate with the
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