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The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native rights organization. [1] It was founded in 1944 [ 3 ] to represent the tribes and resist U.S. federal government pressure for termination of tribal rights and assimilation of their people.
The National Congress of American Indians had been planning to create a headquarters to conduct all political and financial business since as early as the eighties. [4] [5] Before the Embassy of Tribal Nations was established, the NCAI rented a building. [6] The estate in Washington, D.C. is three stories and was built in the 19th century. [6]
Carlisle alumni, founding conference of the National Congress of American Indians, 1944. The Society of American Indians was the first national American Indian rights organization run by and for American Indians and pioneered twentieth century Pan-Indianism. The Society was a twentieth century forum for a new generation of American Indian leaders.
First Meeting of the National Congress of American Indians. The National Congress of American Indians was created on November 17, 1944. [11] The National Council of American Indians and the National Congress of American Indians in purposes and activism both advocate for the progression of Native Americans within the United States.
According to the National Congress of American Indians, there are 574 federally recognized Indian Nations. In Canada, there are more than 630 First Nation communities .
The American Indian Policy Review Commission was a commission established in 1975 with Public Law 93-580 during the 93rd Congress. [1] The commission was established in order to conduct a comprehensive review of the relationship between the USA federal government and Native Americans. [ 2 ]
National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, a party congress held every five years National Congress of American Indians , an American indigenous rights organization National Congress of Australia's First Peoples , national representative body for Indigenous Australians, 2009–2019
After completing his PhD at Harvard, Kelly and his wife returned to Tucson, Arizona, where he became a professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.Kelly continued his work with the Cocopah tribe and joined a number of international and national organizations, mainly the Inter-American Indian Institute (IAII) and the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) of which he was an ...