Sec. 6. Tribal sovereignty
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Congress recognizes that— the authority, obligations, and fiduciary trust responsibilities of United States to provide programs and services to Indians Tribes and individual Indians have been established in— Acts of Congress; treaties; and jurisprudence; and the United States and Indian Tribes have a unique legal and political relationship. The head of each administering agency shall, in any relevant agency actions— establish, by regulation, a special initiative that reflects and supports the relationship between the United States and Indian Tribes described in subsection (a)(2); confirm that each Indian Tribe may exercise full and inherent civil regulatory and adjudicatory authority over all land and resources within the exterior boundaries of the reservation or other land subject to the jurisdiction of the Indian Tribe; establish, by regulation, standards and procedural requirements— to secure free, prior, and informed consent of Indian Tribes— to agency actions that affect Indian land, water, livelihoods, and culture (including off-reservation treaty-reserved rights to hunting, fishing, gathering, and protection of, and access to, sacred sites); and on an ongoing basis, to any measure or other action carried out by the administering agency under this Act; and to include consideration of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage, intellectual property, and traditional Indigenous knowledge of Indian Tribes and Indigenous communities in agency actions and programs; take into consideration the provisions and standards contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, dated September 13, 2007, without qualification; strengthen and support Tribal sovereignty by ensuring that all treaties and agreements with Indian Tribes and members of Indian Tribes and Indigenous communities are observed and respected in their entirety; and protect and enforce that sovereignty by taking effective measures to extend the fiduciary trust responsibilities of the United States to Indian Tribes to— environmental, socioeconomic, health, education, and agricultural issues; and trade issues between and among Indigenous communities, the United States, Canada, and Mexico; and ensure that the standards, processes, and criteria for qualified investment programs of the administering agency, and the allocation of funds under those qualified investment programs, shall incur obligations relating to a mandatory set-aside of investments and funding for Indian Tribes and Indigenous communities.