Native Nations Institute International Advisory Council meets at Standing Rock
Back row, left to right: Stephanie Carroll Rainie (Ahtna Athabascan), Dave Archambault II (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe), Miriam Jorgensen, Patty Hoeft (Oneida Nation), Robert Valencia (Pascua Yaqui Tribe), Stephen Cornell. Front Row, left to right: Daryle Rigney (Ngarrindjeri), Eileen Briggs (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe), Phyllis Young (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe), Joan Timeche (Hopi), Sophie Pierre (Kootenay), Mona Nozhackum (Prairie Band Potawatomi), David Gipp (WicaKpe' Isnala - Lone Star - Hunkpapa Lakota).
NNI’s International Advisory Council (IAC) convened in Fort Yates, ND at the Prairie Knights Casino & Resort on October 21-22, 2016. The IAC, which meets twice a year, consists of current and past Native leaders, scholars, community leaders, administrators, and nonprofit organization executives. The advisory council provides input and advice to ensure NNI’s programs continue to have the maximum benefit effect for Native nations.
NNI staff and IAC members were hosted by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Dave Archambault II, tribal chairman, and Phyllis Young, former tribal council member, briefed meeting attendees on the tribe’s nation building efforts in the current conflict over protecting sacred land and water.