Presidential Proclamation on National Native American Heritage Month, 2018
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
During National Native American Heritage Month, we celebrate the legacy of the first people to call this land home. America’s Native Americans have fortified our country with their traditions and values, making tremendous contributions to every aspect of our national life. We remain committed to preserving and protecting Native American cultures, languages, and history, while ensuring prosperity and opportunity for all Native Americans.
American Indians and Alaska Natives are both important components of the American mosaic. Native Americans are business owners creating good jobs for American workers, teachers educating our children, first responders assisting neighbors in need, and leaders serving their communities. This month, we especially recognize the immeasurable contribution of American Indians and Alaska Natives who serve in the Armed Forces at five times the national average. We also acknowledge the many American Indians and Alaska Natives who are members of Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement and who sacrifice their safety for the security of all.
My Administration is committed to the sovereignty of Indian nations ‑‑ including the rights of self-determination and self‑governance ‑‑ and ensuring economic opportunity from Window Rock in Arizona to the Badger-Two Medicine region in Montana. By engaging with tribal leaders as representatives of sovereign nations, my Administration is working to find effective solutions to pernicious challenges, such as generational poverty. Our partnership is furthering economic development and advancing needed reforms.
My Administration has also embraced all Federal agencies ‑‑ especially the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service, and the Bureau of Indian Education ‑‑ to improve the quality of services delivered to American Indian and Alaska Native communities. We are combating the destructive opioid epidemic, confronting human trafficking and violent crime, expanding educational opportunity, increasing collaborative homeland security approaches to border security, and improving infrastructure throughout Indian country.
Earlier this year, I was pleased to sign into law legislation giving Federal recognition to six American Indian Tribes. The formal recognition of these sovereign governments is a symbol of our ongoing effort to restore self-governance and economic vitality to Native American peoples, and we welcome these tribes into America’s family of sovereign nations.
Our Nation is proud of and grateful for its Native American heritage and traditions, including a history of innovation and entrepreneurship. The essential contributions of Native Americans continue to strengthen our American family and brighten our future together. This month, I encourage all Americans to learn more about American Indian and Alaska Native cultures as we celebrate and honor the many Native peoples who have given so much to our great Nation.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2018 as National Native American Heritage Month. I call upon all Americans to commemorate this month with appropriate programs and activities and to celebrate November 23, 2018, as Native American Heritage Day.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-third.
DONALD J. TRUMP
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What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose.
One of the very proponents of an American Indian Day was Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, who was the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. He persuaded the Boy Scouts of America to set aside a day for the “First Americans” and for three years they adopted such a day. In 1915, the annual Congress of the American Indian Association meeting in Lawrence, Kans., formally approved a plan concerning American Indian Day. It directed its president, Rev. Sherman Coolidge, an Arapahoe, to call upon the country to observe such a day. Coolidge issued a proclamation on Sept. 28, 1915, which declared the second Saturday of each May as an American Indian Day and contained the first formal appeal for recognition of Indians as citizens.
The year before this proclamation was issued, Red Fox James, a Blackfoot Indian, rode horseback from state to state seeking approval for a day to honor Indians. On December 14, 1915, he presented the endorsements of 24 state governments at the White House. There is no record, however, of such a national day being proclaimed.
The first American Indian Day in a state was declared on the second Saturday in May 1916 by the governor of New York. Several states celebrate the fourth Friday in September. In Illinois, for example, legislators enacted such a day in 1919. Presently, several states have designated Columbus Day as Native American Day, but it continues to be a day we observe without any recognition as a national legal holiday.
In 1990 President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations, under variants on the name (including “Native American Heritage Month” and “National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month”) have been issued each year since 1994.
Trumps budget cuts are clearly not indicative of supporting BIA, IHS or the BIE. Zinke agreed.
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Yeah - those 2017 numbers were ?????
Well according to the linked article, 30 million more for public safety and justice, 64 million more for education, $35.4 million more in contract support costs, 9.9 million in climate change resiliency grants and 2.8 million more for facilities management.
BTW, you mentioned the NCAI, from the linked article:
BTW, the linked article also has a link to the greenbook for 2018 and going all the way back to 2011. Check out the #s for yourself.
Jefferson Keel, Lt. Governor of the Chickasaw Nation, is the President of the NCAI at present. Brian was the preceding President - both excellent leaders.
The Feds are constantly futching with the budgets for Native Americans. 2018 had an increase of of 26M dollars in the budge over 2017, but the actual monies were $30M more. However, 2019 is listed as having $1,999 Billion less than 2018, or a 9% decrease in funding.
Seems kind of like disingenuous lip service while the conservatives in North Dakota systematically purge Native Americans from the voting rolls.
If you'll notice, the stupidity being played in ND impacts a lot of folks, not just Native Americans.
For ND, this is normal - even though it's contrary to the Voting Rights Act.
The latest I heard is that they will now purge votes for not using the correct color of ink. If that doesn't reek of desperation to win an election, I don't know what is.
I appreciate the month of November being recognized as ''Native American Heritage'' month.
Words mean little in this scenario, it's the administrations actions that count and they couldn't be further from the words..Sadly.
I'm glad to see that President Trump is carrying forth this commemoration in the footsteps of his presidential predecessors.
Isn't this the very same white nationalist administration which has repeatedly used racist tropes about "Pocahontas" and which has done literally NOTHING to stop the GOP's efforts to disenfranchise native voters in ND?
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skrekk - If you think your "comments" of digs are cute - stay off my threads.
Unless you don't have a street address.
Exactly. Trump's DOJ has submitted many an amicus brief and interjected itself into litigation that they think will further their agenda. Yet they are strikingly mum on the suit by the Spirit Lake Sioux tribe trying to defend their right to vote.
And of course you're paying no attention to the suits being filed by the tribes, NCAI and DOJ, right? Right.
Yet I cited a suit filed by the Spirit Lake Sioux tribe. But you paid no attention to that. Right?
And I'm supposed to just praise you over listing one and ignoring the others?
NARF submitted an emergency brief last month to SCOTUS and SCOTUS ruled with the lower court, giving no reason for their denial.
I seek nor need no praise from you 1st. Thankfully, you have nothing to do with how I benefit from the vested interest I have with the people there.
Merely recognizing the fucking FACT that I'm aware of [unlike the vast majority here] and was able to cite a SPECIFIC filing from a SPECIFIC tribe would have been sufficient. Instead, you post a kneejerk attack about me not acknowledging EVERY suit that was filed.
BTFW, the REASON that I singled out the Spirit Lake Sioux is that one of my good friends, a Water Walker elder, has been keeping me up to speed through Facebook about WTF is going on with that SPECIFIC tribe.
Actually, they DID give a 'reason for their denial'.
What amazes me is that at least two federal courts have refused to issue injunctions on the basis that it's "too close to the election".......despite the fact that the restrictive change in voter access went into effect in effing October, ie since the primary and just before the election. Truly bizarre.
Dulay - please watch your language on my threads. I'm not one of your buds or followers.
If you want to discuss the thread, as is, about Native American Heritage Month - let's do that. Tit for tat shit is pathetic, so please stop.
And, I wonder just how many Native Americans understand that it is OUR responsibility to educate and train those who are not knowledgable of our stories????? Betcha if we did have more education and training, there'd be more acceptance - ya think? Believe me folks, it ain't ALL the government's fault - we are responsible for some of the blame - the blame of keeping our mouths shut when wrongs are done. Standing Rock????? Great for our voices. ND??????? We better get our butts in gear and do some stomping.
Well, I see that no one actually wants to discuss the thread.
Thanks for your interest.
Native Americans need a larger presence in the national media. 80% of Americans live in large cities and their metro areas. Unless they see things in the national media, they don't have a lot of reason to be attracted to American Indian issues.
Get the young generations involved, that is all that I can say, older people have preconceptions about Native Americans that coupled with the NA lack of cultural visibility in large population centers means AI issues will not be addressed. Out of sight out of mind.
Interesting note John - 22% of Native Americans live on reservations which leaves the other 78% located in Rural or city life. With such a large percentage off the rez, there are ample sources for education from them.
The Native population has reached 6.9 million, or 2%. That's a huge increase from the 1952 250,000 Native population.
Yet that could and should change and one of the overlooked vehicles for that to happen is NA controlled Casinos. We have one right up the road yet unfortunately, the tribe does little to educate the locals about the their heritage or history in this area. When I went there the first time I was very disappointed that their 'garden' had no indigenous plants nor was there even ONE menu item in any of the restaurants that could even remotely represent the culinary culture of the tribe.
IMHO, it's unfortunate that the tribe, at least the one here, is squandering their opportunity to educate people in their culture.
But, if you look at the Oneida in Green Bay who have rebuilt county roads, built a hospital, two schools, a police station, assisted the locals fuzz with vehicles, emergency and otherwise. Foxwoods is another example of assistance to the community. The Morengo in Cali is highly successful and is a great boon to the community. Albuquerque has 12 casinos, 8 of which are productive, i.e. making money, and those 8 are also involved within the surrounding communities.
Depends on the tribe and locale, but for the vast majority of the 236 Native American casinos, many are just breaking even and a few, such as those mentioned above, are successful.
Michigan has quite a few NA casinos. As you said the bigger ones do a lot for the community. Buy homes for Tribal members.(and no Elizabeth Warren you can't get a home)Roads, schools....etc. I see a lot of pole barn casinos in the U.P. that basically are just Tribe income source.
My comment had NOTHING to do with being financially successful 1st.
Since they have landscaped gardens anyway, plantings that represent their historical heritage wouldn't COST them anything. Neither would including their culinary culture on menus. A children's teaching garden would help to educate young people about their historic agricultural culture in this area. Something roads and cops don't do.
BTW, the tribe here is building a NEW Casino this year and expanding the 2 they already have.
Wow - didn't know you were the cultural police for the tribes in Indiana, but I do know that you'll find something negative to say about anything I post.
But, I imagine that out of the 567 Federally Recognized Tribes, you can probably find something that doesn't suit you with the other 566.
Thanks for no interesting discussion - as usual - from you.
This seed is closed thanks to the disruptive commenters.