Here is the flyer: hawaii-native-leadership-roundtable
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In his public statement after the results of the November election were announced and again in his inaugural address, President Obama sent a clear signal to the nation that Native Americans would have a seat at the table as Federal policies are formulated, decisions affecting Indian country and the nation are being shaped, and implementing actions are being considered.
The provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 reflect not only President Obama’s recognition of the government-to-government relationship with Native nations, but his commitment to addressing the dire needs of the communities that Native governments serve. In addition, the Act establishes a new set of potentials for Indian country in terms of tax incentives and tribal government bonding authorities that should enable Indian nations to develop their economies and their resources in a manner similar to those economic development and growth tools that state governments have been able to use for decades.
In Alaska, Alaska Natives work not only through their Native governments, but through the Native regional and village corporations that were established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, to foster the economic growth of Native communities, create jobs in their rural and often isolated Native villages, and to develop the capacities of Native small businesses to engage in government contracting and to participate more fully in the global economy.
In Hawaii, Native Hawaiians are seeking the restoration of their sovereign government which was overthrown in 1893 with the assistance of U.S. military forces. And the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, which manages approximately 200,000 acres of land that were set aside under Federal law in 1921 for Native Hawaiians, is engaged in building communities through both public and private partnerships that will not only provide multi-income homes for Native Hawaiians, but schools and jobs, access to health care and the protection of cultural resources.
Yet, while America’s Native people are moving forward on the economic front, the ability of their governments to exercise the full range of their sovereignty is consistently being severely constrained by rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court and lower Federal courts that depart from well-established principles of Federal-Indian law. And in recent times, the Congress has done little to curb the direction that the courts are taking.
Now is the time for Native people to seize the unique opportunity to call for a significant change in the way the U.S. government has conducted its relations with the sovereign Native nations, and to come to the Congress with an agenda that will restore the full sovereignty of Native governments.
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