{"id":3097,"date":"2020-10-15T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2020-10-15T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:19:11","slug":"alaska-federation-of-natives-opens-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/15\/alaska-federation-of-natives-opens-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Federation of Natives opens annual conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\">\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/event\/371976\/embed\/e2232e8cd6\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Alaska Federation of Natives opens annual conference<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Thursday, October 15, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe <a href=https:\/\/www.nativefederation.org\/>Alaska Federation of Natives<\/a> is opening its annual conference on Thursday morning.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThis year&#8217;s event is being held virtually on account of the <a href=\/COVID19\/>coronavirus<\/a>. The theme is &#8220;<a href=https:\/\/www.nativefederation.org\/convention\/>Good Government, Alaskans Decide<\/a>.&#8221;\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe conference runs  through Friday. \r\nViewers can watch the livestream on the <a href=https:\/\/www.nativefederation.org\/watch-convention-live\/>AFN website<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nFor a more interactive experience, visit the <a href=https:\/\/ve.attendify.com\/index\/jhwp0v\/s_jhwp0v\/>2020 AFN Convention virtual hub<\/a> on a web browser. Or download the <a href=https:\/\/attendify.com\/app\/jhwp0v\/>AFN app<\/a>.\r\n<P><\/p>\r\nThe marketplace also has gone virtual this year. Visit <a href=https:\/\/www.collective49.com\/collections\/2020-afn-customary-art-show>collective49.com<\/a> to connect with Native artists and vendors.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><BR>\r\n<em>Thursday, October 15<\/em><BR>\r\n8:00 a.m. \u2014 Coffee with  AFN President Julie Kitka and special guests U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, Gen. Glen VanHerck, Commander, U.S. Northern Command, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, and Lt. Gen. David Krumm, Commander, Alaskan NORAD Region, Alaskan Command, and Eleventh Air Force. With a traditional welcome by Dr. Rosita Worl, Albert Kookesh, and Wayne Westlake <BR>\r\n(NOTE: this can only be watched on our <a href=https:\/\/www.nativefederation.org\/watch-convention-live\/>Livestream at nativefederation.org<\/a>, on our <a href=https:\/\/ve.attendify.com\/index\/jhwp0v\/s_jhwp0v\/>Virtual Event Portal<\/a>, or on the <a href=https:\/\/attendify.com\/app\/jhwp0v\/>2020 AFN App<\/a> from Apple or Google) \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n9:40 a.m. \u2014 Keynote address by Alaska House Speaker Bryce Edgmon\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n11:00 a.m. \u2014 Doctors Anne Zink, State of Alaska; Robert Onders, ANTHC; and Donna Galbreth, SCF will host a panel on Coping With Covid: Health In The Time Of Pandemic\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n1:35 p.m. \u2014 AVCP President Vivian Korthuis; Alaska U.S. Attorney Byran Schroder; and Special Agent In Charge of the FBI\u2019s Alaska Office Robert Britt will host a panel on  Rethinking Justice: Native-driven Progress \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n2:20 p.m. \u2014 U.S. Attorney William Barr\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<em>Friday, October 16<\/em><BR>\r\n8:00 a.m. \u2014 Coffee with AFN President Julie Kitka and special guest Tara Sweeney, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior <BR>\r\n(NOTE: this can only be watched on our <a href=https:\/\/www.nativefederation.org\/watch-convention-live\/>Livestream at nativefederation.org<\/a>, on our <a href=https:\/\/ve.attendify.com\/index\/jhwp0v\/s_jhwp0v\/>Virtual Event Portal<\/a>, or on the <a href=https:\/\/attendify.com\/app\/jhwp0v\/>2020 AFN App<\/a> from Apple or Google) \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n9:15 a.m. \u2014 U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n10:10 a.m. \u2014 Panel of senior military officials discuss Strategic National Security Imperatives: Maintaining Balance Of Power In The Arctic \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n2:40 p.m. \u2014 Panel of national and state leaders in communications and technology discuss Up To Speed: How New Technologies Are Overcoming Rural Alaska\u2019s Broadband Challenges ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alaska Federation of Natives is opening its annual conference with the theme &#8220;Good Government, Alaskans Decide.&#8221;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[139,78,79,5,138],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-afn","tag-alaska","tag-alaska-native","tag-coronavirus","tag-meetings","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/afnconvention.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-NX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}