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At NCAI's 2024 Mid Year Convention & Marketplace, attendees will have the opportunity to work collaboratively to protect and enhance tribal sovereignty. This will be an in-person convention, which will take place in Cherokee, NC at Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort. Tribal leaders, NCAI members, Native youth, and partners from across Indian Country will gather to embark upon a new era of Nation-to-Nation engagement, which will include: proactive strategy development, advocacy, and much more.

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This meeting will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams.

This meeting is held in conjunction with the 2024 NC Indian Unity Conference.

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In honor of our nation’s first inhabitants, Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed November as American Indian Heritage Month, celebrating the history and heritage of North Carolina’s eight state recognized tribes including the Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Sappony and Waccamaw-Siouan. This month also honors our state’s four urban Indian organizations consisting of the Cumberland County Association for Indian People, and the Guilford, Metrolina, and Triangle Native American Associations.

The NC Commission of Indian Affairs Annual Meeting, scheduled for Sept. 1, 2023, has been cancelled and rescheduled Sept. 15, 2023.

The North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs Annual Meeting will be held at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke on Sept. 15, 2023, at 10 a.m. 

Hosted by the Native American Student Association & the Native American Caucus

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The American Indian Heritage Celebration, with support from its community partners the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs and the North Carolina American Indian Commission has been the culminating event in honor of American Indian Heritage Month in North Carolina for more than 25 years.