Native News Network

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Anna Rondon, (Dine' Nation), indigenous activist, Member of Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, and main organizer of the Indigenous World Uranium Summit, joins us for this segment of the show to discuss, recap, and expound upon the "7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum", which was held this past October 22-24, 2009 in Sky City, New Mexico. For extensive audio files from speakers at the conference, please http://www.earthcycles.net/.

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Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee Nations), will be discussing a wide variety of issues and providing in-depth analyses on the United States President, Barack Obama's meeting with 564 First Nations representatives held this past Thursday (11/05/09) in Washington D.C.

Suzan Shown Harjo is president of the Morning Star Institute in Washington, D.C., a columnist for Indian Country Today, a poet, writer, lecturer, curator and policy advocate who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres of land and numerous sacred places. She has developed key federal Indian law since 1975, including the most important national policy advances in the modern era for the protection of Native American cultures and arts: the 1996 Executive Order on Indian Sacred Sites, the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the 1989 National Museum of the American Indian Act and the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act.

Ms. Harjo is president and executive director of The Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights organization founded in 1984 for Native peoples' traditional and cultural advocacy, arts promotion and research. Morning Star has initiated an ongoing international effort to issue declarations of tribal cultural property and to achieve a Treaty Respecting Cultural Property Rights of Native Peoples. Morning Star was the sponsoring organization for The 1992 Alliance (1990-1993) and for the initial lawsuit, Harjo et al v. Pro Football, Inc., regarding the trademarks and name of Washington's professional football team.