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Nov. 13, 2013--In front of the Department of the Interior, site of the White House Tribal Nations Conference, a small group of demonstrators sought the release of Leonard Peltier from prison. > Peltier, a leader of the American Indian Movement, was convicted in the deaths of two FBI agents in a shoot out at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975.

Inside...
Jodi Gillette, Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs on the White House Domestic Policy Council, spoke.  Gillette is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota and South Dakota.
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell welcomes leaders to the conference.  [press release]
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx.
Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz.
Remarks by Dr. David M. Gipp, president of United Tribes Technical College, followed by a short video on Robert Kennedy, introduced Attorney General Eric Holder. 
Following Attorney General Holder's speech [remarks] attendees went to one of the breakout sessions:

-Promoting healthy tribal communities
-Strengthening tribal economies
-Protecting natural and cultural resources
-Advancing the government-to-government relationship
-Supporting self-determination and self-governance
-Building safe tribal communities
-Investing in the future
-Moving communities forward.
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