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The National Congress of American Indians annual winter conference comes as the federal government is actively dismantling the diversity initiatives that help establish Native representation in the workplace and in the public sphere. The nation’s oldest and largest Native advocacy group is shaping its strategy for carrying a unified voice to a fractured government and public on issues that matter most: sovereignty, consultation, environmental sustainability, the Trust Responsibility, and economic development. We’ll hear NCAI President Mark Macarro’s 2025 State of Indian Nations address and get perspectives on the organization’s coming year.
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Tadd Johnson (Bois Forte Band of Chippewa), Regent at the University of Minnesota, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and attorney
Break 1 Music: Intertribal (song) High Noon (artist) Generations (album)
Break 2 Music: Ideal Dub (song) Casper Loma Da-Wa (artist) Honor the People (album)
Thank you for the covering this story. I’m glad to be informed. I have concerns about Natives being exempt from the DEI cancellations because the word “Indigenous” has been removed from all of NASA’s website, and the Healthy Brain Initiative: Road Map for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples (a publication addressing dementia in Natives and Native communities) has been removed from the CDC website with an error message stating that the site is being revamped to comply with Trump’s DEI orders. Neither of those actions tells me the Trump administration is considering Native people exempt from his erasure of DEI efforts and past progress in this country.