{"id":5392,"date":"2020-05-21T15:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:46:44","slug":"ancsa-regional-association-and-alaska-native-village-corporation-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/05\/21\/ancsa-regional-association-and-alaska-native-village-corporation-association\/","title":{"rendered":"ANCSA Regional Association and Alaska Native Village Corporation Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5394 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.21.20_ara_and_anvca_joi-001-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.21.20_ara_and_anvca_joi-001-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.21.20_ara_and_anvca_joi-001.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5395 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.21.20_ara_and_anvca_joi-000-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.21.20_ara_and_anvca_joi-000-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.21.20_ara_and_anvca_joi-000-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5.21.20_ara_and_anvca_joi-000.jpg 927w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>May 21, 2020<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is about providing much needed support to Alaska Native people and communities&nbsp;to&nbsp;fight COVID-19&nbsp;and&nbsp;to repair and grow our economies.&nbsp;The ANCSA Regional Association (ARA) and the Alaska Native Village Corporation Association (ANVCA)&nbsp;are pleased by the <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=5342\">U.S. District Court decision&nbsp;to uphold&nbsp;our organizations\u2019&nbsp;right to intervene<\/a>&nbsp;in this case. We applaud the court for ensuring our voices are heard in a case that will clearly impact our Alaska Native people and communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We believe it is imperative to preserve and protect the&nbsp;Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act<i>&nbsp;<\/i>(ISDEAA) definition of \u2018Indian tribe\u2019, which includes Alaska Native corporations and has been acknowledged&nbsp;for decades.&nbsp;Changes to this definition would have unintended consequences, including lost support for rural Alaska villages and negative economic impact in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>For&nbsp;background on ANCs and the CARES Act, please go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ancsaregional.com\/cares-act\/\">https:\/\/ancsaregional.com\/cares-act\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANCSA Regional Association and the Alaska Native Village Corporation Association\u00a0are pleased by the U.S. District Court decision\u00a0to uphold\u00a0our organizations\u2019\u00a0right to intervene\u00a0in this case.<\/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],"tags":[71,400,434],"class_list":["post-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizations","tag-ancs","tag-anvca","tag-ara"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392","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=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}