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Published: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Interior Dept. headquarters. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
Interior Department headquarters in Washington. Francis Chung/E&E News
As an academic, Robert Anderson advocated giving sharper teeth to policies requiring outreach to Native Americans and called intriguing a move to enhance the clout of the Interior Department s top American Indian affairs official.
Now, as the Biden administration s newly named nominee to serve as Interior solicitor, the law school professor could be much closer to putting his tribe-empowering ideas into practice. It is apparent that Indian tribes in the United States need more than rights to consultation when federal projects or federal-permitted projects take place in off-reservation areas that may nonetheless affect indigenous rights to land and water, Anderson wrote in 2018.