May 2013
May 2, 2013
NCAI Releases Public Comments Submitted to U.S. Department of State on Keystone XL Pipeline
Draft Environmental Impact Statement doesn’t address potential impact to tribal water resources, sacred places, and lacks plans for emergency response coordination with tribes
April 2013
April 30, 2013
Native American Midwife Student Awarded 2nd Annual NCAI Graduate Health Fellowship
NCAI announced Nurse-Midwifery Student Brittany Simplicio (Navajo) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as its second annual Native Graduate Health Fellowship recipient.
April 29, 2013
Jacqueline Pata on MSNBC Discusses History and Contemporary Context of ICWA
NCAI's Executive Director Jacqueline Pata appeared on Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC on Sunday April 28, 2013 to discuss and contextualize the Indian Child Welfare Act.
April 26, 2013
Indian Country Budget Week in Washington, DC "Uphold the Federal Trust Responsibility"
April 16, 2013
New Financial Education Tool Kit and Native Financial Education Coalition Effort
Announces Expanded Native Financial Education Initiative beginning in April 2013, Financial Literacy Month
April 12, 2013
NCAI Releases Analysis of Obama Administration Budget
Concerning Cuts to Contract Support Costs and School Construction, Promising Signs of Commitment to the Trust Responsibility in Law Enforcement, Health, and Natural Resources
March 2013
March 29, 2013
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: Amicus Briefs in Support of Brown Family Include U.S. Solicitor General, 19 States, and Broad Coalition of Supporters
Twenty-Four Briefs Call for Brown Family—Daughter, Veronica, and Father, Dusten—to Remain Together and Indian Child Welfare Act to Remain Intact. Brown Family, Who Have Prevailed in Every Court So Far, Will Have Fate Decided by the Supreme Court in a Case to be Heard on April 16th.
March 27, 2013
NCAI Files Amicus Brief in Support of Equal Voting Rights in Wandering Medicine v. MuCulloch
Brief highlights difficulties on-reservation Native voters face in achieving voting rights equality in Montana
March 7, 2013
President Obama Signs Violence Against Women Act into Law
NCAI Begins Implementation Coordination
March 5, 2013
NCAI Announces 2013 Indian Country Leadership Awards;
Senator Patty Murray, The National Taskforce to End Sexual and Domestic Violence; Andrew Lee; and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate.
February 2013
February 28, 2013
House Passes Violence Against Women Act
February 22, 2013
NCAI Opposes New House VAWA Legislation; Bill Represents Step Back on Tribal Provisions
February 22, 2013
NCAI Responds to Senator Grassley’s Video Comments on VAWA Tribal Provisions – “Fear Mongering” Must End
February 14, 2013
NCAI President Outlines Course for Securing the Future of Tribal Nations and America
February 12, 2013
Violence Against Women Act Passes Senate with Increased Bipartisan Support for Tribal Provisions
February 11, 2013
NCAI President Keel to Deliver State of Indian Nations Address; U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell to Deliver Congressional Response
February 8, 2013
Looming Budget Sequestration Poses Threat to Security and Progress for Tribal Nations and American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
February 7, 2013
NCAI Reiterates Support for Senate Version of Violence Against Women Act; Letter to Leahy and Crapo Calls for No Harmful Amendments to S.47
February 6, 2013
NCAI Statement on the Nomination of Sally Jewell to Serve as U.S. Secretary of the Interior
January 2013
January 29, 2013
Tribal Nations Set to Gain Authority to Make Disaster Declarations Directly to U.S. President
January 23, 2013
NCAI Calls for Action on Violence Against Women Act Legislation in 113th Congress
January 23, 2013
NCAI President Jefferson Keel Attends 57th Inaugural Address
Tribal nations represented throughout Presidential Inauguration weekend events