The Bad and Good News in Indian Country - DC Officials and a Native Youth

The Bad and Good News in Indian Country - DC Officials and a Native Youth www.ICTMN.com

In November 2015, the 7th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference took place in Washington DC. The conference was created by the Obama Administration to allow tribal leaders the opportunity to meet with top government political and agency leaders to strengthen the government-to-government relationships with Indian Country and to improve the lives of American Indians and Alaska Natives, especially Native youth.

In light of the White House bringing together 566 federally recognized tribal leaders in Washington, D.C., ICTMN interviewed top administrative officials from a plethora of agencies covering such issues as tribal sovereignty, education, justice and more.

In this video series, viewers will hear from these officials about the bad news in Indian Country (what they see in need of improvement) and the good news (what their agencies are doing about it.)

The video segment includes Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Deputy Secretary Mike Connor, Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice Sally Quillian Yates, Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, Small Business Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet, Native Youth Ambassador Anthony Tamez (Cree, Lakota) and President Obama Environmental Advisor Director Dr. John Holdren of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

[ossibok]

I cant describe the feeling of seeing that Lakota, Cree rock his Afro proudly. Being of Black and Ms Choctaw myself this made me smile from ear to ear. Anthony keep up the great work for our people. ! Achukma!!!!

[liza]

the Good news is that native peoples are STILL HERE AND WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!

[TseyiHastiin]

We need to influence the STEM fields for our children!