United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources. It also administers programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States, as well as programs related to historic preservation. About 75% of federal public land is managed by the department, with most of the remainder managed by the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The department was created on March 3, 1849. It is headquartered at the Main Interior Building, located at 1849 C Street NW in Washington, D.C.
Main Interior Building
The hierarchy of the U.S. Department of the Interior
Logo of the National Invasive Species Council
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Deputy Director, Michelle E. Warren, leading an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Native Hawaiians are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands.
King Kamehameha II
Hawaiians performing a Hula
Hawaiian man with his two children, c. 1890
A depiction of a royal heiau (Hawaiian temple) at Kealakekua Bay, c. 1816