Around the Nation 10:00 am Fri January 31, 2014  Indian Country
Sets Priorities With State Of Nations Address  Originally
published on Fri January 31, 2014 10:59 am    This is TELL ME
MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Many of us are continuing
to talk about President Obama's State of the Union address. In
fact, the Barbershop guys will give us their thoughts about it
later this hour. But there was another important speech this
week laying out the priorities of the nations within the nation.
I'm talking about yesterday's State of Indian Nations address.
That speech is a chance for the president of the National
Congress of American Indians to lay out his priorities for
Indian country.  The Congress is the oldest and largest
American-Indian and Alaskan native organization in the country.
We wanted to hear more, so we are pleased to be joined now by
the National Congress of American Indians' president Brian
Cladoosby. He is a member of the Swinomish Indian Tribal
Community of Washington state, but he was kin