U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to visit Acoma Pueblo on Thursday to begin a tour aimed at highlighting federal initiatives over the past eight years for public land, wildlife management and government relationships with Native American tribes.
Jewell is expected to tour Acoma Pueblo, west of Albuquerque, where the Obama administration placed 59,000 acres of land into trust for the tribe — a move that was part of one of the president's policy priorities for Indian Country. In the past eight years, more than 500,000 acres of land were placed into trust for tribes.
Jewell also will visit Sky City School, a federally run school that she says is transferring to the control of the tribe.
The Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Education has aimed in recent years to give tribes more oversight of the schools in their area.
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