President Barack Obama's Budget Concerns Indian Country Leaders

Rob Capriccioso
April 15, 2013
Concerned Indian country leaders are saying that President Barack Obama, in his proposed budget for 2014, is not doing as strong a job at upholding the nation’s trust responsibilit...

Rapid Reactions to House Passing of Violence Against Women Act

ICTMN Staff
February 28, 2013
American Indian women had their voices heard today as the U.S. House passed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act with the U.S...
Steven Newcomb

Jefferson Keel’s Message of Political Assimilation

On February 14, 2013, in Washington, D.C., Jefferson Keel (Chickasaw Nation) delivered his "State of the Indian Nations” address in his capacity as President of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)....

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February 22, 2013
Peter d'Errico

NCAI President Jefferson Keel Falls Into Traps

When President Jefferson Keel referred to the "trust relationship" in his State of Indian Nations address to the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), he fell into a common trap...

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February 21, 2013
Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Elephants in Indian Country’s Living Room: Responding to NCAI’s State of Native Nations Address

To be in a position of leadership—at least for NCAI’s president Jefferson Keel—is to be in the role of a politician, and that means taking predictably centrist positions (at least publically) to appease as wide an audience as possible....

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February 19, 2013
Ruth Hopkins

Who Does NCAI Represent?

This past Thursday, Jefferson Keel, President of the National Congress of American Indians, delivered the 11th Annual State of the Indian Nations Address....

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February 17, 2013

The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country, February 17, 2013

ICTMN Staff
February 17, 2013
It's our weekly roundup of the stories that mattered most in Indian country: • LAND DISPUTE: The Poarch Band of Creek Indians blocked access to the sacred Hickory Ground by a group...
Charles Kader

On Jefferson Keel's State of Indian Nations Address

 

In reading over the 2013 State of Indian Nations address by outgoing President Jefferson Keel of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), a number of talking points of emphasis stood out as compelling subjects for further examination....

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February 16, 2013

State of Indian Nations: 'A Moment of Real Possibility'

Mark Trahant
February 15, 2013
National Congress of American Indians President Jefferson Keel began his annual report, State of Indian Nations, with a simple exclamation...

Jefferson Keel's State of the Indian Nations Address

ICTMN Staff
February 14, 2013
The following is National Congress of American Indians President Jefferson Keel’s 11 th Annual State of the Indian Nations Address from this morning in Washington, D.C.: “Members o...

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