Obama Invites Native Americans and Alaska Natives to DC

Mon, October 12, 2009
Posted in Alaska News

President Barack Obama is inviting Native American and Alaska Native leaders to meet with him in Washington next month. Leaders from each of the 564 federally recognized tribes will be invited to meet with the President and high-ranking members of his administration.

Libby Casey, APRN – Anchorage

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Comments

Jonathan Krukoff

this is freakin fantastic.... don't know how serious the white house is on this, but the fact that Obama made it a campaign pledge and is following through on it is like Christmas for me.

mabaker

how coincidental? first Alaska Natives push S881 and get no where. Then Obama, with arms wide open for casino money contributions, hands out invites.

do you think Obama is doing this to
a) learn how to dance with a loin cloth
b) go on a spirit quest
c) bolster his standing in a rich demographic and swell his campaign coffers

smgangwer

perhaps the native leaders can convince Obama to release some of the federal stronghold exhibited against this state.

Martha

I thought congress agreed that native americans do not have to pay for medical expenses. Why then are the medical service going to collection agencies? Maybe those smart people DC can answer my question.

Summer Carrington

As a Native American I do not trust Washington as my Ancesters did not trust them years before. Any Native who think any good will come out of this meeting is a fool. History will repeat at your cost not theirs. Be careful for what you wish for and don't take your children down a road of no return. We were robbed by gov. before, left on crappy rez's now we may loose even that..............BE WARNED

alapak

As long as you keep working for the state artifical family tree [ forbidden (nonhuman):] for the villages=(daughters), city,=(mother) and its artificial tribes=(regional) under self determination, you will keep paying for their services and keep helping to destroy the land.
Grants written under 95- self government, are embezzelment if regional were given the grants. Self government grants are for your own people not based on artificial trees (State) laws.
93-638's are laws for giving regionals funds under self determination.
[ to eat means to serve. fruits are its , daughters, courts and its system, ]