NCAI President Keel delivers State of Indian Nations on Thursday
Monday, January 24, 2011
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National Congress of American
Indians President Jefferson Keel will deliver the annual State of Indian
Nations address this Thursday.
This year's speech will take place at 10:30am at the
Newseum in Washington, D.C. It
will be broadcast live at
ncai.org and carried on radio
stations across the country.
Keel will use the address to reflect on the state of Indian Country going into 2011 and outline the key priorities for the federal government to consider when working to uphold the federal trust responsibility to tribal nations.
It comes two days after
President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union.
Keel is in his second year as NCAI president. He also serves as lieutenant governor
of the
Chickasaw Nation in
Oklahoma.
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