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In October, 2024, cards with the UNIO logo were distributed at the 81st Annual Conference and Marketplace of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). The cards critiqued the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina's for alleged "[s]hifting claims of tribal ancestry", "speculation" without "genealogically verifiable information", and inability ...
The Embassy of Tribal Nations is an embassy located in Washington, D.C. [1] that provides a center of operations to the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). [citation needed] It was established on November 3, 2009 [2] and allowed the NCAI and other tribal groups an opportunity to meet in a designated location. [3]
The National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC) is a multi-day event which usually takes place on a university campus east of the Mississippi River, bringing together thousands of delegates from Order of the Arrow lodges around the nation for training and activities.
This gathering, and the IITC which resulted from it, was called for by the American Indian Movement, [1] and was attended by delegates from 97 Indian tribes and Nations from across North and South America. IITC held the Second International Treaty Conference on the land of the Yanktonai Dakota people in Greenwood, South Dakota in June 16–20 ...
The Sixth Annual Tribal Nations Conference was held from December 2, 2014 – December 3, 2014, in Washington, D.C. [19] Leaders from the 566 federally recognized American Indian nations were present, along with the President, members of the cabinet, and the White House Council of Native American Affairs. [20]
The NCAI's initial organization was largely created by Native American men who worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and represented many tribes. Among this group was D'Arcy McNickle of the BIA. [6] [7] At the second national convention, Indian women attended as representatives in numbers equal to the men. The convention decided that ...
The conference was therefore seen as the first UN conference on Indigenous Peoples. [3] [4] After a further thirty years of campaigning, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on September 13, 2007. It was opposed only by the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The research and historical reports compiled in evidence for Native American claims was first amassed in 1954 at the inaugural Ohio Valley Historic Indian Conference, the predecessor organization later renamed the ASE. A collection of the studies was published in the series "American Indian Ethnohistory" by Garland Publishing in 1974.