The Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation is a land base held in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ) in Ledyard, Connecticut, in New London County, in the Norwich-New London metro area, and on the Pequot River, now known as the Thames River.

Hualapai Hilltop is located about from the community of Peach Springs, along paved BIA Road 18.

The old BIA radar tower is taken down so that a new tower could be built to meet international standards.

The Bridge Street Bazaar hosted annually by the Carleton Place BIA ( Business Improvement Association ) is a street fair, which occurs on the Civic Holiday weekend.

Yonge-Dundas Square is located within the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area ( BIA ).

Another method of determining total body water percentage ( TBW %) is via Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis ( BIA ).

In contrast to similarly named Departments in other countries, the United States Department of the Interior is not responsible for local government or for civil administration except in the cases of Indian reservations, through the Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ), and island dependencies, through the Office of Insular Affairs ( OIA ).

The BIA police force is composed of members of various Native American tribes from throughout the United States, and personnel often do not belong to the nations they oversee.

Most employment on the reservation is provided by community institutions, such as Oglala Lakota College, a tribal college, and other schools ; the Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ); and the U. S. Indian Health Service ( IHS ).

The Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U. S. Department of the Interior.

Located at 1849 C Street, NW, in Washington, D. C., since May 22, 2009, the BIA is headed by an Assistant Secretary — Indian Affairs.

The suit was filed against the U. S. Department of Interior, of which BIA is part.

The Bureau is currently trying to evolve from a supervisory to an advisory role ; however, this has been a difficult task as the BIA is remembered by many Native Americans as playing a police role in which the U. S. government historically dictated to tribes and their members what they could and could not do in accordance with treaties signed by both.

The district is one of Vancouver's Business Improvement Areas ( BIA ).

The Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ) is the entity charged with law enforcement and protection for the Tribe, while the Indian Health Service clinic provides health care and emergency services.

It is home to around 500 of the tribe members and is one of the most remote cities in America, as it can only be accessed by taking the Old U. S. Route 66 and traveling about 60 miles ( 96 km ) along BIA Road 18 to the trailhead.

The trailhead is located at Hualapai Hilltop, Arizona ( which is located at the end of BIA Road 18 ), where there is a large parking lot, a heli-pad, portable toilets, and the main office for the Havasupai.

Established in 1907, South Granville or Uptown is an upscale Business Improvement Area ( BIA ) south of Vancouver's downtown core and bordered by the neighbourhoods of Kitsilano, Fairview and Shaughnessy.

Funds originating within the BIA there is only one BIA employee at Rocky Boy due to the self-governance compact, together with tribal government, provide work for ( 231, full-and part-time ) employees.

In the southern portions of the region, there were also large and diverse non-Hispanic populations: The Highland Park, Arroyo Seco and El Sereno sections facing South Pasadena was known for a large Black community, as there are many African Americans including the former " Calle de Los Negroes " or the Chinese quarter ; Boyle Heights was heavily Armenian, Serbian, Jewish, Portuguese and Japanese ; Lincoln Heights was heavily Italian ; and finally the 1930s-era Okies colony of Mount Washington and Monte Sereno where many poor white farmers and American Indians settled, it is also where the Southwest Museum of the American Indian is located in the neighborhood where thousands of Native Americans were resettled by the BIA Urban Indians relocation program in the 1950s.

The Confederated Tribes and the Colville Indian Reservation are governed by the Colville Business Council From its administrative headquarters located at the Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ) Agency at Nespelem, the Colville Business Council oversees a diverse, multi-million dollar administration that employs from 800 to 1, 200 individuals in permanent, part-time, and seasonal positions.

The merged entity's corporate headquarters were originally located at Redhill, Surrey, the location of the old BIA head office.

Bloordale Village is a Business Improvement Area ( BIA ) in Toronto that is located along Bloor Street from Lansdowne Avenue to Dufferin Street, west of downtown in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Red Shirt is located just past the east end of SD 40, which becomes BIA Highway 41 at the bridge over the Cheyenne River ( boundary between Custer County and Shannon County and of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

* Church and Wellesley Village BIA

Whaling, a BIA school and a Russian Orthodox Church attracted many Tlingits to Killisnoo.

On 19 July 2006, the Home Secretary, John Reid confirmed that the IND would be hived off as an executive agency after a major reshuffle of the Home Office .. From April 2007 it became the Border and Immigration Agency ( BIA ).

In April 2006 was BIA chosen by Australian Defence Force ( ADF ) to develop a number of Loadmaster Virtual Reality Simulators ( LVRS ) utilizing VBS1 simulator engine.

However in the spring of 2009 the tribe did not receive the funding they anticipated from the BIA, and disbanded the department.

Forest City had a school run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ).

To obtain these funds Gettysburg would have had to accept the BIA school.

Gregg had previously worked as a BIA fire crew member, and was indeed among the first to be called in to fight the Rodeo Fire.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ), responsible for law enforcement on the reservation at the time, allegedly sent the police investigation case file of the rape ( for which it had custody ) to its Aberdeen, South Dakota office to keep it away from the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Court.

During the war in 1942, the BIA had grown in an uncontrolled manner, and in many districts officials and even criminals appointed themselves to the BIA.

While the BIA had been an irregular force, the BDA was recruited by selection and trained as a conventional army by Japanese instructors.

The BIA still has had the ability to oversee some tribal operations, including the police, who were often assigned from other Indian tribes rather than representing local people.

The City, under mayor Wes Uhlman, said it would not open discussions until it had the land, and referred them to the Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ).

UIATF, which had previously avoided dealing with the BIA, now went through the National Congress of American Indians to approach the BIA and request a freeze on plans to transfer land at Fort Lawton until the issue between UIATF and the City was resolved.

In 2007, the Bureau of Indian Affairs had recommended that the Central California BIA superintendent should " assist " the tribe establishing its new government ; however, Larry Echohawk, then Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, declared that the tribe does not need BIA oversight and can organize its own government, ratify a new constitution, and create its own criteria and procedures for tribal enrollment.

In 1978 the BIA published final rules with procedures that groups had to meet to secure federal tribal acknowledgment.

One reason the BIA chose the Menominee was that the tribe had successful forestry and lumbering operations which the BIA believed could support the tribe economically.

In 1944, Aung San, the Burmese nationalist who had founded the BIA with Japanese assistance and had been appointed Minister of Defence in Ba Maw's government and commander of the Burma National Army, contacted Burmese communist and socialist leaders, some of whom were already leading insurgencies against the Japanese.

It had been under investigation both by the FBI and the BIA.