{"id":36917,"date":"2024-03-27T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-veterans-granted-congressional-charter\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T22:39:02","slug":"native-american-veterans-granted-congressional-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-veterans-granted-congressional-charter\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American veterans granted congressional charter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CRST Chairman Ryman LeBeau, Senator Rounds and Don Loudner<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Committees on Indian Affairs and Veterans\u2019 Affairs, today held a ceremony in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the granting of a congressional charter to the National American Indian Veterans (NAIV). \u00a0<\/p>\n

Rounds first introduced this legislation in 2020 during the 116th Congress and again in the 117th and 118th Congress with Senator Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.). This legislation was co-sponsored by 40 bipartisan senators. The NAIV Congressional Charter was signed into law in December last year as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NAIV was originally established as a result of a request by Senators Akaka, Inouye and Nighthorse Campbell during a Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee hearing in 2004,\u201d said Rounds in his remarks at today\u2019s event. \u201cAt that time, no Native American veterans organization had ever received a congressional charter. I am proud to say that 20 years later, your hard work has paid off and the charter is a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ceremony also included keynote remarks from Senator Luj\u00e1n and Veterans\u2019 Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough; a Presentation of Colors and Ceremony Drum Group by Kiowa Black Leggings Warrior Society, Kiowa Women Warriors, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache (KCA) Veterans Organization, Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Drum Society; and a presentation of NAIV Charter documents to NAIV National Commander Don Loudner. Don is a Korean War Era veteran and a member of the Hunkpati Sioux Tribe based in South Dakota.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also in attendance were Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Jaime Pinkham, Army Major General Patrick Gaydon, Coalition of Large Tribes (C.O.L.T), C.O.L.T Chairman Marvin Weatherwax, Great Plains Tribal Chairmen\u2019s Association and others.<\/p>\n

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CRST Chairman Ryman LeBeau, Senator Rounds and Don Loudner WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Committees on Indian Affairs and Veterans\u2019 Affairs, today held a ceremony in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the granting of a congressional charter to the National American Indian Veterans (NAIV). \u00a0 <\/p>\n

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