{"id":420875,"date":"2026-02-09T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=420875"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:58:51","slug":"audio-2026-state-of-indian-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/02\/09\/audio-2026-state-of-indian-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: 2026 State of Indian Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"The National Congress of American Indians<\/a> (NCAI) hosts the State of Indian Nations on February 9, 2026<\/a>.\r\n

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Speakers<\/div>\r\nLarry Wright, Executive Director, NCAI
\r\nJonas Kanuhsa, Co-President, NCAI Youth Commission
\r\nAngelina Serna, Co-President, NCAI Youth Commission
\r\nMark Macarro, President, NCAI
\r\nSen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota)\r\n

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Program<\/div>\r\nYoungbloods Drum Group and Native American Women Warriors Color Guard
\r\nInvocation by Gary Lujan (Pueblo of Taos)
\r\nNCAI Youth Commission: Jonas Kanuhsa and Angelina Serna
\r\nState of Indian Nations by NCAI President Mark Macarro
\r\nCongressional Response from Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota)
\r\nHonoring of Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota)\r\n

<\/P>\r\nThe State of Indian Nations<\/a> kicked off NCAI’s executive council winter session<\/a> in Washington, D.C.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Congress of American Indians hosts the State of Indian Nations on February 9, 2026.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420945,"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":[20,13,1,14],"tags":[5980,346,94,7152,1601,2059,138,381,7,91,1198,1136,57,102],"class_list":["post-420875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-angelina-serna","tag-dc","tag-democrats","tag-jonas-kanuhsa","tag-larry-wright","tag-mark-macarro","tag-meetings","tag-minnesota","tag-ncai","tag-senate","tag-soin","tag-tina-smith","tag-veterans","tag-youth","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1Luj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17\/StateofIndianNations2026.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420875","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=420875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420946,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420875\/revisions\/420946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}