This event is sponsored by HUD's Office of Native American Programs. This two-day Summit - “Asset Building: A Pathway to Economic Self-Determination” provides an opportunity for Native asset building practitioners to network and get up to date information on self-sufficiency initiatives taking place in Indian Country. Throughout the Summit participants will have an opportunity to:


• To exchange ideas about asset building in Indian Country
• To Identify key problem areas and barriers that prevent families from achieving self-sufficiency
• To highlight best practices in self-sufficiency and asset building
• To develop strategies and action items that will support Native residents as they move on their path toward self-sufficiency
• To network and connect with individuals representing a broad spectrum of entities such as national intermediaries, state funding agencies, lenders, federal agencies, financial regulatory, entrepreneurs, for-profits, tribes, and Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs)

Workshops will address; financial education, credit counseling, rental readiness, homeownership and child savings accounts. Workshops will incorporate key learning strategies to:


• Access key financial education programs to help families make informed financial decisions
• Gain an understanding of the impact that policies have on a family and community economic success
• Identify resources available to fund asset building. Presenters will address a wide mix of topics that focus on youth, families, culture, asset preservation
• Describe what self-sufficiency means and visualize what self-sufficiency could mean for their residents and their TDHEs
• Explore the role of financial education as the foundation to asset building
• Incorporate asset building concepts and tools into their self-sufficiency programming.

 http://www.cvent.com/events/asset-building-a-pathway-to-economic-self-determination-iv/event-summary-da1b724ebd81425f87d84722db9377b1.aspx

. For further information please contact: 

National Native Asset Building Summit

The 2019 Tribal Consultation with the Administration for Children and Families, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be held at the Pechanga Resort and Casino. Tribal Consultations are opportunities for ACF officials to hear from Tribal leaders and discuss issues important to them as well as ACF programs, including the Administration for Native Americans, LIHEAP, TANF, Head Start, Children’s Bureau, and the Office of Trafficking in Persons.

More information about the meeting please click here: 

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ana/2019-acf-tribal-consultation

Should you have any questions about the consultation session, please feel free to contact the ANA 

 for this consultation through this site.

ACF Tribal Consultation

The 36th Annual National Tribal Health Conference will take place in Temecula, California, September 16-19, 2019. National Tribal Health Conference (NTHC) is the largest American Indian and Alaska Native specific gathering each year focused specifically on health. The conference focuses on exploring health policy and its impact on Tribes, advancing Tribal capacity to expand own policy work, and policy and political work in the arenas of health care, public, behavioral, and environmental health.

The conference features multiple tracks of concurrent breakout sessions, as well as general plenary sessions that feature nationally recognized guest speakers and elected and appointed governmental officials. Two critical components of the National Tribal Health Conference program are the listening and government consultation sessions that are free to the public and offered on pre- or post-conference days.

The conference is hosted and planned annually by the National Indian Health Board, as well as local member organizations or Tribes. The 2019 National Tribal Health Conference (NTHC) is being hosted locally by the California Rural Indian Health Board.

National Indian Health Board - National Tribal Health Conference (NTHC)

AITC provides an overview of the state of tourism in Indian Country and connects tribal leaders and tourism enterprises with tourism and hospitality professionals in order to expand and grow tourism in tribal communities. 

AITC is the only national conference on tourism in Indian Country designed to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices from tourism programs around the U.S

21st Annual American Indian Tourism Conference

The National Transportation in Indian Country Conference is the premier Tribal transportation event of 2019. Join over 500 of your fellow Tribal transportation professionals at this one of a kind event.

The National Transportation in Indian Country Conference

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Bureau of the Census 2020 Census Tribal Consultation Meetings

You are invited to the Museum’s annual event, the 2019 Native American Trade Feast. This free event will take place on Saturday, September 14th , from 

. Sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian?, the Trade Feast will be located at Miwok Park, 2200 Novato Blvd., Novato. 94947. Parking will be available off site at the Lutheran Church. https://www.marinindian.com, 415-897-4064 Featured at the event will be Native American arts and crafts including Buffy Smith, Monique Sonoquie, Bear Yurok Designs, Una Harding, Becky Olvera Schultz, Karen & Michael’s Specialty Gifts, RedTail Art, Lee Zabin and many more. Performing at the Trade Feast will be Red Voice Drum, Unole Drum, Sonoma County Pomo Dancers, Kalpulli Anahuak Aztec Dancers, Hula Manu O’o Dancers and Hoop Dancer Eddie Madril. There will be Miwok songs and stories, basketry demonstrations, regalia making, shell bead drilling, children activities, book sales and tours of the Museum. Vendors: No drop-in vendors will be allowed; all vendors must apply and be pre-approved. Drop-ins will be asked to leave. Priority given to previously participating vendors and space is limited. For more info contact Publicity Coordinator,

2019 Native American Trade Feast

This two-day interactive Indian Child Welfare Legal Summit is designed for attorneys, judges, parents’ attorneys, GALs, adoption attorneys, and state prosecutors to learn how to better serve American Indian and Alaska Native children and families. 

6th Annual Indian Child Welfare Legal Summit

Self-Governance Communication &Education Tribal Strategic Planning Session

This link will provide you with the location, schedule and other key info: 

https://www.crazycrow.com/site/event/shinnecock-indian-powwow/

Be here for the 73rd Annual Shinnecock Indian Powwow on 

, 2019 at the Shinnecock Powwow Grounds in Southampton, New York. The Shinnecock Indian Powwow is one of the largest Native American Gatherings on the East Coast, a place where Native drum groups and dancers compete for over $50,000 in prize money. Experience the sights, sounds and smells of the powwow. Each day there is competitive dancing, guest entertainment, prayers, ceremonial dances, the acknowledgement of sponsors and visiting dignitaries. We honor our veterans for protecting this life as we know it. Grand Entry re-occurs each preceding day at 12:30pm and 7pm with the exception of Monday. The Shinnecock Indian Powwow concludes Monday evening at 6pm with the awarding of prizes to our competing drums and dancers.Be here for the 73rd Annual Shinnecock Indian Powwow on August 30 – September 2, 2019 at the Shinnecock Powwow Grounds in Southampton, New York. The Shinnecock Indian Powwow is one of the largest Native American Gatherings on the East Coast, a place where Native drum groups and dancers compete for over $50,000 in prize money. Experience the sights, sounds and smells of the powwow. Each day there is competitive dancing, guest entertainment, prayers, ceremonial dances, the acknowledgement of sponsors and visiting dignitaries. We honor our veterans for protecting this life as we know it. Grand Entry re-occurs each preceding day at 12:30pm and 7pm with the exception of Monday. The Shinnecock Indian Powwow concludes Monday evening at 6pm with the awarding of prizes to our competing drums and dancers.

Shinnecock’s 73rd Annual Powwow

The Tribal Consultation on Potential Future Set-Aside Funding

Update on latest Litigation, Legislation, Tax 101 Training, Tax Commission Update, Marijuana Tax, Oil and Gas tax, etc.

NITA
5727 Baker Way NW Suite 200
Gig Harbor, WA 98332
1-253-525-5145

21st Annual Tax Conference National Intertribal Tax Alliance [NITA]

The Summer 2019 CDC/ATSDR TAC Meeting and 19th Biannual Tribal Consultation Session will provide opportunities for tribal leaders to speak about the public health issues affecting their tribal nation. These meetings will include, but are not limited to, discussions about securing sustainable funding to Indian Country, ensuring a tribal voice in CDC policy and programs, and current CDC priorities. Tribal nations also will have an opportunity to present formal testimony about tribal public health issues.

The registration form, agenda, and hotel information will be available later in June on the CDC Tribal Health website at 

CDC/ATSDR Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting and 19th Biannual Tribal Consultation Session

Annual Training Session offered for Tribes who have signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Department Homeland Security to begin or continue the implementation of their Enhanced Tribal Card Program within their Tribe.

8th Annual Enhanced Tribal Card Training Session

Description: Informational Session to educate Indian Country about the background and implementation of the Enhanced Tribal Card Program under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.

3rd Annual Enhanced Tribal Card Informational Session

Women & Water Coming Together

Westmark Fairbanks Hotel & Convention Center | 813 Noble St, Fairbanks, AK
Subcommittees: July 31
TIBC Meeting: August 1-2

The Tribal/Interior Budget Council (previously the Bureau of Indian Affairs/Tribal Budget Advisory Council) was established in 1999 to facilitate tribal government participation in the planning of the BIA budget and includes two tribal representatives from each of the 12 BIA regions.

The mission of the TIBC is: to provide an advisory government-to-government forum and process for Tribes and the Department to develop budgets that allow for the fulfillment of tribes' self-determination, self-governance, sovereignty, and treaty rights, as well as sufficient levels of funding to address the needs of Tribes and their tribal citizens.

For more information and previous meeting notes and presentations, please visit 

Westmark Fairbanks Hotel & Convention Center:

. $149/night for standard rooms. $169/night for suites.

. Group name: NCAI.org. Group code: TO1T6. 

Tribal Interior Budget Council

2019 TSGAC/SGAC 3rd Quarter Meeting

Tribal Self-Governance Advisory Committee (TSGAC) and Self-Governance Advisory Committee(SGAC) Meeting

Congressional Panel Discussion with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) to identify policy solutions to address the recommendations outlined in the 2018 USCCR Report: “BROKEN PROMISES: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans.”

Wednesday, June 5 from 1:00-2:00pm in HVC-200

Contact: For questions or to RSVP, please contact Leah Li or 

U.S. Representative Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Host

U.S. Representative Tom Cole (R-OK), Co-Chair, Congressional Native American Caucus

U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM), Co-Chair, Congressional Native American Caucus

Catherine Lhamon, Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

=Karen Narasaki, Lead Commissioner on Broken Promises Report, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Jefferson Keel, President, National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)

Kirk Francis, President, USET Sovereignty Protection Fund

Tara Katuk Mac Lean Sweeney, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior

Tracy Toulou, Director of the Office of Tribal Justice (OTJ) - U.S. Department of Justice

Rear Adm. Michael D. Weahkee, Director of the Indian Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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