NCAI Homeland Security Working Group Proud to Announce: TSA Announces Tribal Government Photo ID Cards Acceptable Documents for Domestic Flights

NCAI is delighted that after months of collaboration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced on April 28 it will officially accept Tribal government photo ID cards as identification for domestic flights.  [more]

House Energy & Commerce Committee Continues to Sit on Desperately Needed Bill

WASHINGTON—April 25, 2008— Today marks the one year anniversary that the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA) has been sitting in the Energy & Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Several months ago, the U.S. Senate passed the reauthorization of the IHCIA sending hope to Indian Country that health care will finally be brought into the 21st Century, but today Native Americans are still waiting on the House. [more]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - An ad campaign has been launched in hopes of raising awareness and curbing the use of methamphetamine in American Indian communities across the nation. The National Congress of American Indians, the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and federal officials unveiled the campaign Friday at the annual Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque.  [more]

WASHINGTON—April 23, 2008—The National Congress of American Indians President Joe A. Garcia issues the following statement in response to recent on air slurs and racist remarks about Native people made by radio disk jockeys.

"The National Congress of American Indians condemns the racist and inflammatory remarks made recently about Native people on local radio programs in Raleigh, North Carolina and Anchorage, Alaska. These ignorant and hurtful comments have no place on America's airwaves.  [more]

NCAI President Joe Garcia Says U.S. Can Still Right its Wrongs

WASHINGTON—April 17, 2008—Pope Benedict XVI, in his first papal mass in the United States, acknowledged the injustices faced by Native Americans since the founding of this country when talking about the promise of hope the U.S. has to offer. "To be sure, this promise was not experienced by all the inhabitants of this land; one thinks of the injustices endured by the Native American peoples and by those brought here forcibly from Africa as slaves," he said.   [more]