NATIVE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL FORUM AUGUST 19-20

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Event Schedule (all times are Central Daylight Savings):

Monday, Aug. 19:
9 am – Marianne Williamson
10 am Elizabeth Warren
1 pm – Special Presentation
2 pm – Amy Klobuchar
3 pm – Steve Bullock

Tuesday, Aug 20:
9:30 am – Joe Sestak
11 am – Mark Charles
1 pm – John Delaney
2pm – Kamala Harris
3 pm – Julian Castro
5 pm – Bernie Sanders
6 pm – Bill de Blasio

The Native American Rights Fund is proud to be co-hosting the nation’s first-ever presidential forum focusing entirely on Native American issues, the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. In addition to co-hosting, NARF Executive Director John Echohawk (Pawnee) will be participating in the forum as a panelist.

The Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum will be held August 19th and 20th (9am-6pm) in Sioux City, Iowa. Over the two days, each candidate will make an individual appearance and respond to questions from panels of tribal leaders and Native American youth. Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women will be the key topic and many Native American women who are tribal and community leaders will be among the panelists, including Gay Kingman, the executive director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association. Each panel will be moderated by Indian Country Today Editor Mark Trahant. (Shoshone-Bannock).

The forum is a national conversation and will be streamed live at https://vimeo.com/fourdirectionsvote. To attend the event in person, tickets are $3/day and can be purchased online.

https://www.narf.org/frank-lamere-presidential-forum/

[Runningdawg]

1. Have any of them addressed the issue of removing voting rights from Natives?

[bluedigger]

2. I just watched Warren talk about voter suppression.

Long story short, she's got a plan.

[Runningdawg]

4. I was hoping someone would speak specifically about the recent ruling against NAs in ND

Funny thing, a whole bunch of Trump voters don't have a street address either, I haven't heard a word about anyone restricting THEIR rights.

[bluedigger]

5. That issue wasn't specifically addressed by the questioner.

She didn't really have time in the forum to get into the weeds of the issue, as it were. I'm somewhat familiar with it, however, and agree that it needs to be fixed. It's a big problem out here in the Four Corners, as well.

[Beringia]

3. Excellent

Maybe an eagle will circle over Sanders.

[Autumn]

6. Where's Biden? nt

[crazytown]

7. Where's Pete, where's Cory, where's Beto?

etc etc

[Autumn]

8. I'm not interested in where Cory or Beto are, they really aren't front runners at this time.

[crazytown]

9. And Pete?

[Autumn]

10. He's polling just a bit above Beto so I don't consider him a front runner either. At this time. nt

[Beringia]

11. I watched Marianne Williamson and some of Elizabeth Warren

It seemed to me Williamson knew the issues that Native Americans face today and their history of genocide and cultural erasure inside and out, and how to make reparations and changes going forward whereas Warren's main message was to rebuild the structure of the way US government works with Tribes, not giving explanation of knowing the history of Native Americans.

Yet there was a stark difference in the way they treated and interacted with the two. They seemed cold and distant to Williamson, like she was from another planet, and treated Warren like she was already their leader, and cheered her on constantly. They did have Native American Congresswoman Deb Haaland introduce Warren, which was a big leg up for her.