Video & Transcript Research : 'Indigenous students'
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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- With this award comes $50,000 in grant money for student center upgrades across... ...student-centered
- Out of thousands of students across 34 states, Enoch Students across 34 states, Enoch advanced the final
- As a proud champion for students with As a proud champion for students with special needs, I am horrified
- He also profoundly shaped my own life when I was an undergraduate student.
- And by the way, unless you're indigenous to this land, you are... you're indigenous to this land, you
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Public Safety Apr 13th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Grant Program.
- We’re talking about murdered and missing Indigenous people.
- We’re talking about murdered and missing Indigenous people.
- Let's actually, when we talk about murdered indigenous people...
- This was always there when I talk about murdered and missing Indigenous people.
Summary:
The hearing focused on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) grant program under the Board of State and Community Corrections and related Department of Justice efforts. BSCC reported that it now administers 36 MMIP grants across three cohorts, with awards ranging from $436,000 to $1 million, plus five collaborative grants at $2 million each, totaling $35.4 million awarded to federally recognized tribes. Testimony from tribal leaders and grantees described how the funding supports prevention, family advocacy, domestic violence services, law enforcement coordination, youth programming, culturally grounded healing, and new tribal public safety positions such as investigators, social workers, and drone operators. Speakers repeatedly emphasized that the crisis is longstanding, tied to generational trauma, and that the grant has helped build trust and infrastructure in tribal communities.
Several witnesses and committee members urged continued and preferably ongoing funding, noting that demand now exceeds available one-time money. BSCC and tribal representatives described outreach efforts that increased participation from four applicants in cohort one to 20 in cohort two and more applicants than funding in cohort three. Tribes also raised implementation concerns, especially the burden of quarterly narrative reporting, limited staff capacity, and the need for flexible administration. BSCC said it uses steering committees, separate small- and large-project categories, orientations, monitoring visits, and technical assistance to support grantees. Tribal leaders and advocates stressed that the program should remain accessible without requiring a waiver of tribal sovereignty.
The second major topic was DOJ’s update on AB 3099, the Tribal Assistance Program, and the tribal police pilot under AB 134. DOJ officials said the Office of Native American Affairs and the Division of Law Enforcement have been conducting outreach, trainings, listening sessions, and coordination with tribal, local, state, and federal partners to address Public Law 280 jurisdictional issues, improve reporting and data, and support Feather Alert and MMIP-related resources. DOJ said the AB 3099 report is in internal review and that the tribal police pilot is moving forward with the Yurok Tribe as a participant, with a July 1, 2026 start date. DOJ and tribal witnesses said the pilot’s main barriers are cost and, for some tribes, the waiver of sovereign immunity. No votes were taken, and the hearing ended with broad support for expanding and sustaining MMIP-related funding and infrastructure.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 6th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We will then add 15 students each successive semester until we reach a cohort of 60 students.
- When I look at all of those students who are there, it's over a thousand students.
- Where can students go on campus?
- I know we use those words, but the reason I say that is that our students. students in general, writ
- also tend to be parenting students.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 27th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- , including ...schools as safe havens for all of our immigrant students, including undocumented students
- You will not be able to cite a single ...a child or a student, a minor.
- These students have a lot of grit.
- college students experiencing housing insecurity.
- It impacts our students. It's essential to who we are as a community.
Summary:
The Assembly met in session, established a quorum, and opened with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Members then moved through guest introductions, including students and fellows from California Lutheran University, UC Merced’s CAPE program, the Maddy Institute, and Madera High School’s Madtown Robotics Team 1323, which was recognized for multiple robotics world championships. The chamber also adopted an adjournment in memory and took up the daily file.
Several bills and resolutions were considered and passed, including AB 1390 on school board compensation thresholds, AB 1338 on air district cost recovery for fence-line air monitoring, AB 648 on community college housing, AB 1207 on cap-and-trade price ceilings, ACR 66 recognizing Skin Cancer Awareness Month, AB 49 on keeping ICE out of public schools, AB 317 on a CEQA exemption for certain single-family homes, AB 527 on geothermal exploratory wells, AB 665 on the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation ombudsman report, AB 940 creating quantum innovation zones, AB 1021 on workforce housing for education agencies, AB 1112 on property tax apportionment in Rancho Mirage, AB 1318 on nonprofit eligibility for public funding, and AB 1470 on using student housing loan funds for affordable housing in downtowns and commercial districts. Most measures passed with broad support; AB 49 and AB 1318 were urgency bills and passed with the required higher vote threshold.
The floor also adopted H.R. 40, declaring May 25 as Rosenda’s Day to honor a teen killed by a drunk driver, and H.R. 42, recognizing May as Behavioral Health Awareness Month. Both drew extensive personal testimony from members about mental health, suicide, substance use, and the need to reduce stigma and expand access to care. Additional health-related bills passed, including AB 408 creating a physician health and wellness program, AB 546 requiring coverage for HEPA purifiers for certain enrollees after wildfire disasters, AB 967 expediting licenses for out-of-state physicians, and AB 968 expanding pharmacist authority to provide non-hormonal contraception.
The Assembly also debated AB 1056 on phasing out gill net fishing and AB 1376 on limiting juvenile probation terms, with supporters framing both as conservation or rehabilitation measures and opponents warning about economic harm or public safety concerns. Both bills ultimately passed. Throughout the session, members repeatedly emphasized public safety, education, housing, climate, health care access, and support for immigrant and youth communities, with recorded roll-call votes and voice votes taken on each measure.
MN
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- postsecondary outcomes, particularly for students from low-income backgrounds, Indigenous communities
- postsecondary outcomes, particularly for students from low-income backgrounds, Indigenous communities
- postsecondary outcomes, particularly for students from low-income backgrounds, Indigenous communities
- postsecondary outcomes, particularly for students from low-income backgrounds, Indigenous communities
- postsecondary outcomes, particularly for students from low-income backgrounds, Indigenous communities
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Today, these students are not just visiting, they are participating.
- Today, these students are not just visiting, they are participating.
- >
not <00:01:54.160>just Today, these students are not just Today, these students are not - , pride in that school, in its students, pride in that school, in its students, its<00:09:27.680>
- That is not a reflection of our students' potential, because we know our students can succeed, but it
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Mar 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- blame for my political career, it is your daughter, who more than 25 years ago signed a form. for UNM Student
- Speaker, gentlemen, the highest rates of missing and murdered Indigenous people are between the ages
- And that's most of the Indigenous members who I work with here in this legislature's age category.
- Includes tribal and indigenous communities, it should be included.
- And what this makes clear is that we must include indigenous data in that data tool.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- program has long served as a model of discipline, commitment, and perseverance, instilling in its student
- program emphasizes the importance of academic excellence alongside athletic achievement, holding student
- So I'd like to ask those students to also join us in standing.
- Arizona State Senate Legislative Proclamation: Day of the Gifted Child and Student of Arizona.
- in celebrating the students, families, and educators of Maryvale's gifted and talented micro school
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Public Safety Mar 17th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- the low hourly rates in our system, which hasn't kept pace with inflation, the cost of living, or student
- We are currently also looking at contracting with UC Berkeley with the Indigenous Center of Law to assist
- to reiterate that it is a complex arena. to pull through the data, and if I may speak to being Indigenous
- their stories, their experiences, but their DNA, when we're talking about missing and murdered indigenous
- important. complicated work, and two is that it was going to be very hard to hang on long-term to make student
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Any students that are in the room today, raise your hands. I notice some young folks over there.
- It is always good to have the students here to teach us a thing or two because we have plenty to learn
- organization called new native theater and it's a free summer camp. 4 grade school and high school students
- Indigenous programming. This is the fourth year that we have done the Dakota language...
- Indigenous programming. This is the 4th year that we have done.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 19th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- somebody who holds football close to its heart, it's truly a pleasure to honor these remarkable students
- Executive MBA student from Chapman University.
- The arguments made, and frankly I think every government teacher should actually have their students
- Latina and indigenous mothers also experience higher rates of postpartum depression, often compounded
- Indigenous women also face alarming high rates of maternal mortality and mental health conditions but
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 14th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- She is a political science student and a future lawyer.
- Coaches also are trusted adults in students' lives.
- School coaches are required to complete training to support student athlete physical health.
- The bill will equip coaches who see and interact closely with student athletes to recognize when a student
- The bill will equip coaches who see and interact closely with student athletes to recognize when a student
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Jan 23rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We have Cody Bicenti, a fourth-year medical student at UNM, Shana Bicenti, Superintendent of Navajo Prep
- University of New Mexico for his undergraduate studies, and is now a fourth-year visiting medical student
- His professional interests Cody's interests include rural medicine, street medicine, and indigenous health
- the total number of instructional days per year and the number of instructional days per week that students
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies Jun 21st, 2026 at 12:30 pm
Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies
Transcript Highlights:
- , postdocs, graduate students, and trainees.
- first-gen, low-income students and students with disabilities.
- students of color.
- This fall, our course registration has fallen precipitously from 50 students each class to about 15 students
- We've trained more than 150 graduate students and postdocs.
Summary:
The committee on Economic Development held a hearing on the DRIVE Act, a proposal to invest $400 million in Massachusetts research and innovation without new taxes. Governor Healey and administration officials said the bill would direct $200 million to public higher education research and regional partnerships and $200 million to a research funding pool for hospitals, universities, and other institutions, with the goal of retaining talent, leveraging private and philanthropic dollars, and offsetting major federal R&D cuts. They argued that research is a core economic engine for the state, supporting jobs across labs, construction, services, and surrounding businesses, and said the bill would help protect the Commonwealth’s tax base and competitiveness during a period of federal uncertainty and cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and other programs.
Committee members raised concerns about whether Fair Share surtax dollars should instead be used for K-12 and other community needs, whether the proposal is enough given the scale of lost federal grants, and how the money would be allocated. The governor responded that the funds are one-time surplus dollars, that most surtax revenue already supports education, and that the bill is meant as a bridge to stabilize public higher education and research. She also said the legislation includes a review board and could support a revolving or matched-fund approach in some cases. Several members pressed for more detail on selection criteria, future funding, and whether private companies and large endowments should contribute more.
University of Massachusetts leaders and researchers testified that federal grant cancellations and delays are already causing layoffs, furloughs, rescinded admissions, and lost research capacity. UMass officials said the bill would help preserve faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and research programs in medicine, climate science, marine science, Braille instruction, and AI decision-making. They emphasized that the funding should be merit-based and that the state needs to act quickly to prevent talent from leaving Massachusetts. Business, labor, and industry groups, including MassBio, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, AIM, the AFL-CIO, and Building Trades, supported the bill, saying it would protect jobs, sustain the innovation ecosystem, and reinforce Massachusetts’ national leadership in research and life sciences. No vote was taken in the hearing.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 14th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I spent a summer as a college student working as an analyst in the voting section of the Civil Rights
- She is a poly-sci student and a future lawyer.
- Coaches also are trusted adults in students' lives.
- School coaches are required to complete training to support student athlete physical health.
- The bill will equip coaches who see and interact closely with student athletes to recognize when a student
Summary:
The Assembly convened after initially lacking a quorum, then completed the prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, journal motions, and a long series of procedural actions, including suspending rules to move bills and approve a large Appropriations Committee hearing list. Members also made several guest introductions, including Shannon Lee, district staff from Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez’s office, and later guests tied to agritourism and education recognitions.
The floor debate centered heavily on AJR 31, a resolution urging Congress to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Supporters argued that recent Supreme Court decisions and redistricting efforts in other states were weakening Black and other minority representation and that California should take a clear stand for voting rights. Opponents argued the measure promoted racial division, conflicted with equal protection principles, and that districts should be drawn based on place or communities of interest rather than race. After a contentious debate with repeated parliamentary warnings over decorum, the Assembly suspended the rules to take up the resolution, added coauthors, and passed AJR 31 by a vote of 58-8.
The Assembly then moved through a series of bills and resolutions, generally approving them with little or no opposition. These included AB 2341 clarifying emergency language translation rules for local agencies; AB 1816 extending court supervision for certain sex-offender rehabilitation programs; AB 2561 protecting consumer privacy settings on phones and digital devices; ACR 167 recognizing World Agritourism Day; ACR 190 recognizing California Day of the Teacher; AB 1581 improving identification of Native American students in public schools; AB 1586 requiring opioid overdose prevention training for school resource officers and safety planning; AB 1665 requiring mental health training for school coaches; AB 1693 streamlining retail tenant-improvement permitting; AB 1768 authorizing a local tax measure related to health funding; AB 1712 facilitating a water-system sale for Santa Fe Springs; AB 1792 addressing sexually exploitive AI imagery in health education; and AB 1822 prioritizing school projects that address extreme heat. Most measures passed overwhelmingly, several unanimously, and the resolution on agritourism and the teacher day were adopted by voice vote.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- In order to create this funding stream, we slowed the growth in student support aid.
- For one, they drive our students safely to school.
- I remember I went to South High School in Minneapolis, which had 2,000 students.
- I'm sure that in the education committees, you talk a lot about student mental health.
- You can’t be working on these farms with these students."
Bills:
HF1049
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- one of the big issues and concerns in areas where nuclear energy occurs, which is predominantly Indigenous
- , is the impact on Indigenous women and their children, because nuclear energy does... ...cause and is
- As a previous commenter has stated, Indigenous communities across New Mexico have been ravaged by uranium
- Even the middle school students who I talk to point out that this is a chain, not a cycle.
Keywords:
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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Feb 6th, 2026 at 08:32 am
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- women and other women of color, and a... ...health services for Indigenous women and other women of
- And I'm sharing my story with other Indigenous women so they may break their silence and know they are
- I work as an international human rights attorney specializing in Indigenous women's rights issues.
- While this work must be done by Indigenous women and women of color, I believe the Commission...
- While this work must be done by Indigenous women and women of color, I believe the Commission can be
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Higher Education Committee and Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Aug 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- CSU students—Black, Indigenous, Latinx, immigrant, queer, trans, first-gen, and disabled students—should
- Communities most at risk are the very students CSU is meant to serve: Black students, Indigenous students
- , Latinx and immigrant students, queer and trans students, and students with disabilities.
- When students are overwhelmed, which many of our students... It's the same thing for students.
- When students are overwhelmed, which many of our students, It's the same thing for students.
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Higher Education and the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee held an oversight hearing on the California State University’s AI-empowered initiative, including the systemwide rollout of ChatGPT EDU and broader AI integration across CSU campuses. Opening remarks emphasized both the promise of AI for student success, workforce preparation, and access, and the need to address risks such as bias, privacy, misinformation, environmental impacts, and mental health harms. CSU representatives said the initiative grew out of Academic Senate recommendations and a systemwide generative AI committee, and that the goal was to provide equitable access, training, governance, and workforce alignment across the 23-campus system.
CSU officials described systemwide contracts for AI tools, the AI Commons training hub, and faculty grant programs supporting AI-related curriculum innovation. They said more than 93,000 ChatGPT EDU accounts had been activated, over 4,300 faculty had taken voluntary training, and $3 million had been awarded to 63 faculty-led projects from more than 400 submissions. San Jose State University highlighted its own AI-focused programs, courses, orientation training, faculty fellows, student ambassadors, and interdisciplinary efforts to build AI literacy and responsible use into instruction and co-curricular programs. CSU also said it was tracking metrics on adoption, academic outcomes, workforce outcomes, and environmental impacts.
Faculty, staff, and student representatives welcomed the educational potential of AI but raised concerns about the rollout, saying it had moved quickly and without enough consultation or consistent systemwide policy. They urged stronger protections for academic freedom, intellectual property, privacy, equity, and worker input, and warned about bias, surveillance, job displacement, and the environmental cost of AI. Legislators pressed CSU and OpenAI representatives on training requirements, data privacy, bias reporting, discipline for misuse, liability, sycophancy, and safeguards against harmful uses such as non-consensual imagery or self-harm-related interactions. CSU said interactions in the licensed tool are private, data are not used to train models, and campuses retain their own conduct processes; members also asked CSU to follow up on systemwide training, policy consistency, and additional safeguards.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- very, very hard in the congressional delegation, with our partners from across the country, so the indigenous
- Native Hawaiians and explain it away against American Indians and Alaskan Natives, who are the indigenous
- you take out Native Hawaiians, we've still got a lot of Asian-American residents, Asian-American students
- <01:02:03.760>
We <01:02:04.000>certainly Asian-American students. - We certainly Asian-American students.
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee held an informational briefing on the rule of law with U.S. Representative Ed Case. Chair Carl Rhodes opened by explaining the purpose of the briefing, noting it was being livestreamed and that public testimony would not be taken in the usual way. He described the rule of law as central to democracy and introduced Case, who was invited to discuss the concept and its relevance to recent federal actions affecting Hawaii.
Case framed the rule of law as a durable system grounded in the Constitution, federal laws, separation of powers, and checks and balances, with each branch of government and the public itself playing a role. He emphasized that Congress makes the laws, the president executes them, and the courts decide whether the Constitution and laws are being followed. He also stressed that elected officials swear to uphold this structure and that the rule of law is distinct from ordinary policy disagreements.
Case then argued that the Trump administration has undermined the rule of law through actions such as dismantling or weakening agencies created and funded by law, withholding appropriated funds, removing inspectors general and other independent officials, ignoring or challenging court orders, weakening the independence of agencies like the Department of Justice and the Federal Reserve, and intimidating dissenting voices, the press, and other opponents. He said these actions have harmed Hawaii and reflect a coordinated effort to concentrate power in the executive branch. He noted that Congress has not been serving as an effective check, while federal courts have been the main remaining check through more than 46 lawsuits, and he identified voters as the ultimate check and balance, briefly correcting the timing of the next midterm election to 2026.