WildFire Protest

The White House has released details about the November 5 Tribal Nations Conference with President Barack Obama.

The event takes place in the Sidney R. Yates Auditorium at the Department of the Interior from 9am to 5:20pm. The building is located at 1849 C. Street, NW, in Washington, D.C.

Obama is tentatively scheduled to be at the meeting until 10:40am, according to the White House. This part of the conference is describe as an "interactive discussion" with the president. Numerous requests by Native Americans stung by terminations and "disenrollments" to attend did not receive responses from the White House.

Other administration officials expected to attend are: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, HUD Deputy Secretary Ronald Sims, DHS Deputy Secretary Jane Lute, Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, and Indian Health Service Director Dr. Yvette Robideaux

The tentative schedule follows:

9:00–9:30 - Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30–10:40 - Interactive Discussion with President Obama
10:45-12:15 - Interactive Discussion with Administration Officials
12:15–1:45 - Lunch
1:45-3:00 - Interactive Discussion with Administration Officials
3:15-4:45 - Interactive Discussion with Administration Officials
4:45-5:20 - Closing Remarks

No to secret meetings at the White House!

Were you invited?  Did you even hear about this meeting in Indian Country.  It's not posted on the BIA website.

Do the leaders of these 564 "Tribes" represent your voice?  Your needs? Or do they represent their own interests?

President Obama will be meeting them to make promises to "fix" Carcieri and help the "qualified" indian tribes.  

• Were you dis-enrolled?  
• Was your tribal identity stolen by an imposter tribe?
• Have you been excluded from the entitlements you've been seeing your leaders get?
• Was your tribe rejected for without explanation...even with thousand of pages documenting your ancestry?

Congress intended the appropriations to be equally distributed among all Native Americans whose ancestors participated in the 1934 IRA.  Not just a select few or created tribes.

Call President Obama and tell him "No on HR 3742, HR 3672, and S 1703". Demand a congressional investigation of the BIA and the SOI.  Don't let them take your rights with a secret meeting that wasn't even announced throughout Indian Country.

You want to talk to the President too!

Oh and don't forget to tell your friends about these secret meetings. Both Indian and non-indian, want to know.

Nationwide WildFire Protest, Coming Soon!