The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center host a rally at the U.S. Capitol on September 11, 2019, to honor Native women survivors of violence and to call for passage of H.R.1585, the Violence Against Women Act.
Speakers include:
* Mary Kathryn Nagle, Attorney
* Juana Majel-Dixon, Secretary of NCAI and Co-Chair of NCAI Task Force on Violence Against Women
* Darla Black, Vice President of Oglala Sioux Tribe
* Carmen O'Leary, executive director of Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains, Vice Chair of NIWRC Board
* Rep Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico)
* Tami Jerue, director of the Alaska Native Women's Resource Center
* Melissa Pope, Chief Judge of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Tribal Court
* Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma)
