{"id":3010,"date":"2020-04-18T22:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T02:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2020-04-18T22:40:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T02:40:16","slug":"inter-tribal-council-of-the-five-tribes-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/04\/18\/inter-tribal-council-of-the-five-tribes-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Tribes (Oklahoma)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Tribes issues statement on CARES Act funding for ANCs<\/h2>\n

April 17, 2020<\/p>\n

\u201cState-chartered, for-profit Alaska Native Corporations are poised to receive billions in governmental relief funds\u2014funds that Congress clearly intended to go to the tribal governments that are working day in and day out to care for their citizens and help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Allowing for-profit corporations to access these governmental relief funds would damage tribal nations across the country and limit their ability to respond to this crisis,\u201d Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr, president of the InterTribal Council of the Five Tribes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Five Tribes and our 790,000 tribal citizens strongly believe any inclusion of Alaska Native Corporations would be at odds with both the letter and spirit of Title V of the CARES Act, and thus firmly ask the Administration to reconsider its stance on this matter. We call upon Secretary Mnuchin to follow both the spirit and the letter of the law passed by Congress and send these dollars to tribal governments.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is breathtaking that at no time during these tribal consultations, the BIA mentioned or acknowledged the Alaska Native Corporations will receive part of this $8 billion set aside for tribes. If they had, there would have been a harsh reaction by tribal leaders. The BIA\u2019s failure to mention or acknowledge this is a travesty. Had this process been transparent, tribal leaders would\u2019ve reacted earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chuck Hoskin Jr., Principal Chief
\nCherokee Nation<\/p>\n

Bill Anoatubby, Governor
\nThe Chickasaw Nation<\/p>\n

Gary Batton, Chief
\nChoctaw Nation of Oklahoma<\/p>\n

Greg Chilcoat, Chief
\nSeminole Nation of Oklahoma<\/p>\n

David Hill, Principal Chief
\nMuscogee (Creek) Nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Tribes opposes the inclusion of Alaska Native corporations in the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[122,363,184,123,365,192,364,46,19,20],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizations","category-tribes","tag-cherokee","tag-chickasaw","tag-choctaw","tag-chuck-hoskin","tag-david-hill","tag-gary-batton","tag-greg-chilcoat","tag-muscogee","tag-oklahoma","tag-seminole"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}