{"id":494,"date":"2020-09-16T06:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/w\/?p=494"},"modified":"2020-09-16T06:40:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:40:22","slug":"national-congress-of-american-indians-kicks-off-tribal-unity-impact-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/16\/national-congress-of-american-indians-kicks-off-tribal-unity-impact-days\/","title":{"rendered":"National Congress of American Indians kicks off Tribal Unity Impact Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<img itemprop=image src=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2019\/10\/28\/fawnsharp.jpeg class=\"img-fluid wow fadeIn\"><\/img>\r\n<figcaption class=figure-caption>Fawn Sharp addresses the National Congress of American Indians 76th annual convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after winning election as president of the organization on October 24, 2019. Photo by Indianz.Com <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=h1-responsive>Tribal Leaders Scheduled to Engage with Congress in Virtual Meetings for Tribal Unity Impact Days<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, September 16, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=byline>By National Congress of American Indians<\/div>\r\n<div class=source-website><a href=http:\/\/www.ncai.org\/>ncai.org<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. | The 2020 Tribal Unity Impact Days, a two-day event hosted by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and its partners, will take place on September 16 \u2013 17, 2020 to provide tribal leaders with the opportunity to engage with key members of Congress in an all virtual setting.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTribal Unity Impact Days kicks off Wednesday, September 16 with an opening session led by NCAI President Fawn Sharp, NCAI Chief Executive Officer Kevin Allis, and an update from members of the NCAI Civic Engagement and Policy Research Center teams for a state of 2020 Census report.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nOn both event days, attendees will hear from Congressional members and tribal leaders, in a round table format, as they discuss critical legislative issues currently affecting tribal nations including: COVID-19; emergency management; natural resources; public safety; infrastructure, and other important topics to Indian Country.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncai.org\/events\/2020\/09\/16\/tribal-unity-impact-days-2020\">This year\u2019s partners<\/a> include three regional inter-tribal organizations and eight national Native organizations.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAdditional details for Tribal Unity Impact Days can be <a href=http:\/\/www.ncai.org\/events\/2020\/09\/16\/tribal-unity-impact-days-2020>found on ncai.org<\/a>. On social media, please use hashtag #TUID2020.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR>\r\n2020 Tribal Unity Impact Days [Draft]<BR>\r\nVIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE AGENDA<BR>\r\nWednesday, September 16, 2020 \u2013 Thursday, September 17, 2020<BR>\r\n All times are Eastern Daylight Time\r\n<BR><BR>\r\nWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2020<BR>\r\n11:30 a.m.\u2013 12:30 p.m.<BR>\r\n\u2022 Event Opener with NCAI Leadership\r\n<BR><BR>\r\n12:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m. Congressional Roundtables:<BR>\r\n\u2022 Rep. Betty McCollum<BR>\r\n\u2022 Reps. Ruben Gallego and Ra\u00fal Grijalva<BR>\r\n\u2022 Rep. Raul Ruiz<BR>\r\n\u2022 Rep. David Joyce<BR>\r\n\u2022 Rep. Derek Kilmer<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2020<BR>\r\n11:45 a.m.\u2013 12:00 p.m.<BR>\r\n\u2022 Event Opener with NCAI Leadership\r\n<BR><BR>\r\n12:00 p.m.\u2013 5:00 p.m. Congressional Roundtables:<BR>\r\n\u2022 Sen. Elizabeth Warren<BR>\r\n\u2022 Sen. Jon Tester<BR>\r\n\u2022 Rep. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n<BR>\r\n\u2022 Reps. Tom Cole and Deb Haaland<BR>\r\n\u2022 Sen. Maria Cantwell<BR>\r\n\u2022 Sen. Tina Smith<BR>\r\n\u2022 Sen. Tom Udall\r\n<HR>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join us on Wednesday with our Congressional panelists for the 2020 Tribal Unity Impact Days roundtables. See the latest agenda and learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HEUZSn5nTJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/HEUZSn5nTJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H4fBHQkzRg\">pic.twitter.com\/H4fBHQkzRg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; National Congress of American Indians (@NCAI1944) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAI1944\/status\/1305664424343150592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On Thursday, Tribal Unity Impact Days&#39; roundtables continue with these members of Congress. Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bC6LAiKwxU\">https:\/\/t.co\/bC6LAiKwxU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aSETlFbGtX\">pic.twitter.com\/aSETlFbGtX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; National Congress of American Indians (@NCAI1944) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAI1944\/status\/1306035256789737473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<HR>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<strong>About the National Congress of American Indians:<\/strong>\r\n<div>\r\nFounded in 1944, the National Congress of American Indians is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization in the country. NCAI advocates on behalf of tribal governments and communities, promoting strong tribal-federal government-to-government policies, and promoting a better understanding among the general public regarding American Indian and Alaska Native governments, people and rights. For more information, visit <a href=http:\/\/www.ncai.org\/\u0010>ncai.org<\/a>.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2020 Tribal Unity Impact Days, a two-day event hosted by the National Congress of American Indians and partners, is going virtual this year due to COVID-19.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507,"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":[20,1,14],"tags":[50,170,5,138,7],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","tag-116th","tag-congress","tag-coronavirus","tag-meetings","tag-ncai","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fawnsharp.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-7Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}