The Alaska Inter-Tribal Council is a statewide, Tribally-Governed non-profit organization that advocates in support of Tribal governments throughout the state.
The Council promotes indigenous self-determination by providing technical assistance to Tribal governments, facilitating inter-governmental and inter-agency communication and collaboration, offering public education regarding Alaska Indigenous cultures and Tribal governments, and advocating on behalf of Tribal initiatives and self governance.
President Obama has recently announced his plans to hold a Tribal Nations Conference.
This is a first of a kind opportunity; However, many of our tribal governments are in need of assistance and lack the resources to travel to this important event. Let's work together to request assistance from President Obama. It would be a valued symbol of respect to provide transportation and lodging for First Nations Leadership. Such assistance would be received with great gratitude, and the significance of this gesture would not be soon forgotten.
Please act quickly to sign the following letter which presses for recognition of the rights of nature....and please circulate it widely to your lists.
After this summer's amazing victory when, against all odds, the United Nations recognized the human right to water and sanitation, we have another opportunity to make history together.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release October 29, 2010
NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, 2010
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Representatives from the U.S. Department of State and Department of Homeland Security will be in Fairbanks on the margins of the Alaskan Federation of Natives Convention to hold an information session on the 1989 U.S.-Russia Bering Strait Visits Agreement (also known as the “visa-free agreement”). The information sessions will be held on Thursday, October 21, in the Exhibit Hall of Pioneer Park at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m. The information sessions will explain U.S.
We must organize ourselves as Tribal Councils to protect our Stellar sea lions.
Talk with your Tribal Government so we can get a unified voice from our Nations.
Lets work together to send a clear message that we as the sovereign first nations are dedicated to the protection of our customary and traditional resources.
RESOLUTION
The Human Right to Water and Sanitation
Item 48 of the General Assembly: Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields.
During Democracy Now's recent trip to southern Louisiana, Tribal
Leaders from Alaska were able to describe how the impacts of climate
change and oil spills have devastated the indigenous peoples of
Alaska.
The indigenous Atakapa-Ishak people in this coastal Louisiana village
have relied on the land and water around them to survive for
generations. They live mostly off the oysters, shrimp and fish they
draw from the marshes. Now the traditions and very survival of this
small community are at risk. We went to Grand Bayou on the same day as
