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5 Mar 2013, 7:41 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
NCAI President’s Address, President Jefferson Keel National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Executive Council Winter Session Washington, DC – March 5, 2013 – L’Enfant Plaza Hotel It’s only been a few weeks since I delivered the State of Indian Nations address and while much of the speech is still relevant – already many things have changed related to a number of the issues that I addressed. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 4:45 pm by Lawrence Solum
  Here is the abstract: American Indian reservations are the poorest parts of the United States, and a higher percentage of Indian families across the country live below the poverty line than any other ethnic or racial sector. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 7:35 am by Susan Schneider
“The National Congress of American Indians applauds the creation of this new initiative,” said Jefferson Keel, president of the organization, which is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native tribal government organization in the United States. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 12:00 pm
The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916, in New York.IT Congress first passed a resolution designating November 1990 as National American Indian Heritage Month. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 6:08 am by Kirsten Matoy Carlson
  Jefferson Keel, Lieutenant Governor of the Chickasaw Nation and past president of the Nation Congress of American Indians, is one of those who has been prominently involved. [read post]
16 May 2008, 4:30 pm
"I encourage everyone - whether you represent a tribe, you represent a local entity or you represent your state - to recognize that we all need to work together in this effort," said Rogers, director of the Justice Department's Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART).There are more than 636,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, but there are no reliable estimates for how many live on… [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 7:13 am
Box 240249 Anchorage, AK 99524-0249 Phone: (907) 269-8990 Web: http://www.hss.state.ak.us/htmlstuf/BOARDS/boards.htm Community Developmental Disability Programs Web: http://www.hss.state.ak.us:80/dmhdd/sum.htm Down Syndrome Alaska Chapter of the National Down Syndrome Congress P.O. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:36 am by azatty
  It serves as a guide for consultations among Indian and Alaska Native nations and U.S. governmental departments and agencies to improve the government-to-government relationship among Indian and Alaska Native nations and the United States. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 12:22 pm by Juliette Rousselot
Our research found that Native American and Alaska Native women are more than 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than women in the United States in general. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 12:10 pm by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Ada Deer, along with the assist from Congress, formally acknowledged the sovereignty of 229 Alaska Native nations. [read post]
17 Sep 2021, 4:35 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
[3] https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-in-1924-all-indians-made-united-states-citizens [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 8:20 am by msatta
In Washington State, Native American and Alaska Native students (including those of mixed ancestry) comprise 6.2% of the K-12 school student population (approximately 64,000 students). [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 7:30 am by Susan Schneider
“The National Congress of American Indians applauds the creation of this new initiative,” said Jefferson Keel, president of the organization, which is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native tribal government organization in the United States. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 7:47 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Here is our guide to the amici (we’ve highlighted the must-read briefs in red): The United States: Here. [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 1:15 pm by Theodora Simon
This sovereignty is inherent, as Native Nations existed long before the creation of the United States. [read post]
14 Nov 2010, 7:00 pm by Diversity Insight
Census Bureau: In 2009, there were 21.9 million military veterans in the United States — 1.5 million were female, 2.3 million were black, 1.1 million were Hispanic, 258,000 were Asian, 153,000 were American Indian or Alaska Native, 30,000 were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 17.7 million were non-Hispanic white. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 9:45 am by steven perkins
It is in this spirit that the United States today proudly lends its support to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Declaration). [read post]