Vice President Aaron Payment opens the second day of the National Congress of American Indians 75th annual convention in Denver. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/HM9hs39LUP
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Rev. Darryl Hogan, Mohave from the Colorado River Indian Tribes, delivers the invocation on the second day of the National Congress of American Indians 75th annual convention in Denver. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/Luhj5ZtWFg
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Charles Trimble, former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians from 1973-1977, couldn’t be here at the 75th annual convention in Denver due to health issues. Frank Ducheneaux is reading Trimble’s speech instead. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/9X07LGyheB
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“Too many tribes fell to termination” and other negative laws, former National Congress of American Indians executive director Charles Trimble said in speech, as read by Frank Ducheneaux at 75th annual convention in Denver. The attacks stopped only after NCAI organized. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/26sfFGd3Tm
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Frank Ducheneaux notes that he too worked at the National Congress of American Indians though he didn’t last too long. “I was executive director for all but a month and a half,” Ducheneaux said to laughter at the 75th annual convention in Denver. That was in 1970. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/gIvT7nB3BK
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“Make no mistake, this is an intentional and direct attack on tribal sovereignty and our families and children,” Sarah Kastelic, executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, said of recent court decision striking down ICWA as unconstitutional. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/E3Z6wCLUuY
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The decision was issued by a federal judge in Texas on October 4. Tribes are mounting an appeal and expect the case to end up before the Supreme Court. Some background here: https://t.co/PQIwc0sAif
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To help protect the Indian Child Welfare Act you can download the ICWA Guide for Tribal Leaders. #NCAI75 #DefendICWA https://t.co/vrcmiUKmvf pic.twitter.com/papFUsuV5F
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“I wish we were talking about better issues. Instead we are talking about threats,” attorney Larry Roberts, who served in Obama administration, tells National Congress of American Indians. The Trump administration and states are threatening tribal homelands, he said. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/pMgAgVbWKG
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“The termination era is upon us,” Chairman Cedric Cromwell of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe told the National Congress of American Indians. The Trump administration has paved the way for the tribe’s reservation to be taken out of trust. NCAI stands in support of the tribe. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/DRDXsFXYNo
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“Our trustee walked away from us,” Chairman Cedric Cromwell of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe tells National Congress of American Indians. The Trump administration has paved the way for the tribe’s reservation to be taken out of trust for the first time since termination. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/FgWeJkd8ok
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“We’re going to march and walk,” Chairman Cedric Cromwell of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe tells the National Congress of American Indians as he asks everyone to come to Washington DC for a sovereignty and land rally on November 14. The march will start at NMAI. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/dmJth5KYRe
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“This is a direct attack upon our tribal sovereignty” W. Bruce Pratt, President of the Pawnee Nation, tells the National Congress of American Indians in Denver. The FCC is writing tribes out of consultation on sacred sites, burial grounds & ancestral lands, Pratt said. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/ybSzKhxGJQ
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“That’s a terrible word termination and yet again that ugly word has risen again,” Bruce Pratt, President of the Pawnee Nation, tells National Congress of American Indians, regarding new federal policy treating tribes as race based groups instead of political governments. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/R4cBzdwbvD
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“I don’t have a lot of faith in this administration,” says Brian Cladoosby, chairman of Swinomish Tribe & former president of National Congress of American Indians. His tribe’s dental health program is being denied federal reimbursement due to race based policy, he said. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/5xa6os72jo
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Keith Anderson, vice chairman of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, announces $100,000 donation to the National Congress of American Indians. “We’ll put it to good use,” President Jefferson Keel said at the 75th annual convention in Denver. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/VHPQ8rqvXy
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“We have been the butt of ever racial joke imaginable, broadcast in the news and social media,” Crystal Echohawk of Reclaiming Native Truth told the National Congress of American Indians. That’s why its time to #TakeBackOurStory, she said in Denver. #NCAI75 #NativeTruth pic.twitter.com/6XdckXNu0I
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#TakeBackOurStory https://t.co/mCTNsjZt7W#NativeTruth#Illuminative pic.twitter.com/hQC4W4JBxP
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“Americans can’t see real Indians because they prefer the imaginary Indians that they’ve created,” Kevin Gover, director of the National Museum of the American Indians, tells the National Congress of American Indians in Denver. #NCAI75 #TakeBackOurStory pic.twitter.com/OzLgWg4W8D
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Eat @tocabe Denver’s only Native owned and operated restaurant! The food truck is parked downtown, on California and 14th. #NCAI75 pic.twitter.com/NBcrr1LJtO
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