Tribal Summit (sovereignty)

The first Tribal Nations Conference will be held in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, November 5, the White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/) announced today. Tribal leaders heard about the summit during the morning session of the National Congress of American Indians (http://www.ncai.org/) conference in Palm Springs, California. Invitations are being sent to all 564 federally recognized tribes. Each tribe can send one representative.

MyTribeTV (http://www.mytribetv.com/), an Indian-owned business in Seattle, Washington, will provide online coverage of the first-ever White House Tribal Nations Conference (http://www.whitehouse.gov/) on November 5.