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height: 20px; margin-left: 4rem; } .organization-about { margin-bottom: 2rem; } .node-type-organization .usa-card__footer a.usa-button, .node-type-organization .usa-card__footer a.usa-button:visited { color: #fff; } .node-type-organization ul.usa-card-group { padding-left: 0; } @media (min-width: 40em) { .node-type-organization .usa-card--flag .usa-card__media { display: flex; overflow: hidden; bottom: 0; top: 0; left: 0; position: absolute; width: 15rem; } .node-type-organization .usa-card--flag .usa-card__body, .node-type-organization .usa-card--flag .usa-card__footer, .node-type-organization .usa-card--flag .usa-card__header { margin-left: 15rem; } } </style> <div class="padding-y-2"> <h2 class="call-out">Who We Serve</h2> <div class="organization-who-we-serve"><p>The Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs is headed by the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs (AS-IA). The Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs assists the Secretary of the Interior in fulfilling the Department’s trust responsibilities to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes and individuals. The position of the Assistant Secretary- Indian Affairs is established under the authority contained in 43 U.S.C. 1453. </p> <p>The Assistant Secretary discharges the duties of the Secretary with the authority and direct responsibility to: </p> <ul> <li>Strengthen the government-to-government/nation-to-nation relationship with American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, </li> <li>Advocate policies that support AI/AN self-determination and tribal sovereignty, </li> <li>Protect and preserve AI/AN trust assets held by the Federal Government for their benefit, and </li> <li>Administer a wide array of laws, regulations, and functions relating to AI/AN tribes, individual AI/AN trust beneficiaries, tribal members, and Indian Affairs bureaus, offices, and programs that are vested in the Secretary by the President and the Congress of the United States. </li> </ul></div> </div> <h2 class="call-out" >Services We Provide</h2> <h3>Top</h3> <div class="grid-row grid-gap-1"> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 margin-y-1"> <a class="usa-button ia-button--card-style" href="/service/request-meeting">Request a Meeting</a> </div> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 margin-y-1"> <a class="usa-button ia-button--card-style" href="/service/bipartisan-infrastructure-law">Bipartisan Infrastructure Law</a> </div> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 margin-y-1"> <a class="usa-button ia-button--card-style" href="/service/ira">Inflation Reduction Act</a> </div> </div> <section class="margin-y-4"> <h2 class="call-out">More Resources</h2> <div><section id="top-tasks"> <div class="grid-row grid-gap-2"> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 blue-rounded-cards"><a href="/service/tribal-consultations">Tribal Consultations</a></div> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 blue-rounded-cards"><a href="/whcnaa">White House Council on Native American Affairs</a></div> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 blue-rounded-cards"><a href="/leadership">AS-IA Leadership</a></div> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 blue-rounded-cards"><a href="/contact-us ">Contact AS-IA</a></div> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 blue-rounded-cards"><a href="/bia/ois/tribal-leaders-directory/">Tribal Leaders Directory</a></div> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 blue-rounded-cards"><a href="/service/BIA-museum/hall-tribal-nations">Hall of Tribal Nations</a></div> <div class="tablet:grid-col-4 blue-rounded-cards"><a href="/as-ia/foia">Freedom of Information Act</a></div> <!-- /.grid-row grid-gap-2 --> </section></div> </section> <h2 class="call-out margin-top-4" >About the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs</h2> <div><p>The Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs (OAS-IA) includes the following: </p> <ul> <li>Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs (PDAS) </li> <li>Deputy Assistant Secretary - Policy and Economic Development (DAS-PED) </li> <li>Deputy Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs (Management) (DASM) </li> </ul> <p>Indian Affairs (IA) is a unique organization within the Federal Government. Four components make up the IA organization within the Interior Department: </p> <ul> <li><a href="/as-ia">Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs</a> (OAS-IA) </li> <li><a href="/bia">Bureau of Indian Affairs</a> (BIA)</li> <li><a href="https://www.bie.edu/">Bureau of Indian Education</a> (BIE)</li> <li><a href="https://www.doi.gov/ost">Bureau of Trust Funds Administration</a> (BTFA)</li> </ul> <p>Each component supports federally recognized AI/AN tribal governments by directly administering (direct service) or funding tribally administered IA, BIA, and BIE programs. 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