Obama to host Tribal Nations Conference

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama will host a Tribal Nations Conference discussing issues of importance to Native Americans on November 5, the White House announced Monday.

Representatives from each the country's 564 federally recognized tribes will be invited to participate, according to the administration.

have held it today?

forgot about the whole CD..thanks.

when he "discovered" a country already lived on by the Americsn Indians.

were standing on some mountain or other, claiming they had "discovered" it, his people were looking at them from behind the rocks, saying "all you had to do was ask us"

that's a good one!

It will be Native American Day in Washington DC on Novemeber 5, 2009(Thursday):)

I didn't know about Native American Day coming up! :hi:

Now that should a national holiday.

Awesome that we could be alive in such a time!

in Flip Wilson's "female" voice: "Who in the hell are you?"

"I'm Christopher Colombus"

"What do you want?"

"I'm here to discover you."

"Discover US?"

"Yes"

"We don't need to be discovered. You better discover your ass on away from here!"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I never watched Flip Wilson. But that's good!

It was hilarious.

check them out on DVD or something. :)

Flip ruled my childhood.

some Pow Wow! I love it that this White House tries to include everyone.

:sarcasm:

We did far worse to the Native Americans while and after we created the U.S. than Columbus ever did. And yet I have Cherokee in my blood, and their are still many full blooded Cherokee in NC. Seams we stoped well short of genocide. I do support, much more support for Native Americans, but what's done is done.

I wish we had more representatives in Congress from 'real Americans'

was one of his campaign promises.

http://www.longestwalk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=142&Itemid=108

"I think President Carter's stand on human rights is fantastic. He's really doing a wonderful job of running around the world screaming about how the human rights of people of different nationalities have been violated. It's just too bad that he doesn't take more time to do the research that will show there are millions of poor whites and blacks, Chicanos, Asians, and Indians whose human rights are being violated here in the United States."

Lehman Brightman, California college professor and South Dakota Sioux Indian, flavored his words with a heavy salting of sarcasm. He had good reason for his disenchantment with our nation's chief executive.

Brightman was one of the national coordinators of the Longest Walk (see articles on following pages), and he and other leaders of the thousands of Indian walkers had hoped, and worked every angle, for a meeting with the President.