{"id":35521,"date":"2024-02-12T13:28:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=35521"},"modified":"2024-02-12T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:33:20","slug":"audio-state-of-indian-nations-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/02\/12\/audio-state-of-indian-nations-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: State of Indian Nations 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"The <a href=https:\/\/www.ncai.org\/>National Congress of American Indians<\/a> hosts the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncai.org\/event\/state-of-indian-nations-2024\">State of Indian Nations<\/a> on February 12, 2024.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe event opened with an honor song by Lance Fisher (Northern Cheyenne) and Giovanna Gross (Oglala Lakota). The pair performed a Cheyenne veterans song.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1745078775&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\"><\/iframe> \r\n<P><\/P>\r\nFollowing an introduction by NCAI Executive Director Larry Wright Jr. (Ponca), Mark Macarro, the chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pechanga-nsn.gov\/\">Pechanga Band of Indians<\/a>, delivered the State of Indian Nations. The speech is his first address since <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/11\/20\/we-need-to-do-some-healing-new-leader-of-national-congress-of-american-indians-vows-unity\/\">winning election as president of NCAI<\/a>, the largest inter-tribal advocacy organization in the U.S.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1745078757&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\"><\/iframe>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1745078748&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\"><\/iframe>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/peltola.house.gov\/>Rep. Mary Peltola<\/a> (D-Alaska) delivered a video response to the State of Indian Nations from a U.S. Congressional perspective. She is the <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/09\/01\/it-is-a-good-day-alaska-native-woman-makes-history-at-the-polls\/>first Alaska Native<\/a> person to <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/09\/15\/i-am-humbled-and-deeply-honored-rep-mary-peltola-d-alaska-joins-u-s-congress\/>serve  in the U.S. Congress<\/a>.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1745078739&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\"><\/iframe>\r\n<P><\/P> \r\nFinally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncai.org\/youth\/ncai-youth-commission\">NCAI Youth Commission<\/a> Co-Presidents Caleb Dash (Salt River Pima-Maricopa) and Yanenowi Logan (Seneca) delivered a response from a youth perspective.\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1745078724&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\"><\/iframe> \r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe State of Indian Nations took place at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. The event kicks off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncai.org\/event\/executive-council-winter-session-2024\">NCAI&#8217;s executive council winter session<\/a>, being held February 12-15 in the nation&#8217;s capital.\r\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/12\/StateofIndianNations-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"State of Indian Nations\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" class=\"invisible\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Congress of American Indians hosts the State of Indian Nations on February 12, 2024.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-audio.php","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":[340,20,13,1,14],"tags":[4618,346,1601,2059,3323,138,7,4619,102],"class_list":["post-35521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-caleb-dash","tag-dc","tag-larry-wright","tag-mark-macarro","tag-mary-peltola","tag-meetings","tag-ncai","tag-yanenowi-logan","tag-youth","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/12\/StateofIndianNations-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-9eV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521","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=35521"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35533,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521\/revisions\/35533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}