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- 1. Counting Urban Indians In the 2010 Census Webinar: March 24, 2010 2:05 pm EST To hear audio for the webinar, you must also call in to our Free teleconference line. To call in, dial: Participant Dial-In: (866) 379-3045 Conference ID # 63089446
- 20. Phoenix Urban Outreach: Key Msgs - It is safe. All information is kept confidential. - We encourage AIANs to use their official tribal name when indicating their tribal affiliation - In the space provided, AIANs can indicate up to 2 tribal names, which is NOT clear from reading the census questionnaire - AIANs DO NOT need to be enrolled in the tribe or tribes that they are indicating on their census questionnaire. Many people think they need to be enrolled, but this is not true. - Ask each person where they live. Important in discussing how the census is being administered. In the urban area, they are receiving it via US Postal Service. On most reservations, it is through enumeration or knocking on doors, with a few exceptions. -i.e. SRPMIC, adjacent to Phoenix urban area is through US Postal Service
- 23. United American Indian Involvement, Inc. Complete Count Committee, Los Angeles, CA CENSUS 2010
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- 34. Questions? Concerns? To ask a question online, click on the Q&A button at the top of your screen and type your question in. (No need to use the “ Ask a Question” hand button, just ask away.) To ask a question on the phone, press *1 on your keypad. You’ll be put into a queue and the operator will un-mute your line at the appropriate time.
Editor's Notes
- Thank you all for joining us today for the fourth in the series of webinars designed to provide Indian leaders with information and assistance on the 2010 Census. Today, we will present a special webinar on counting urban Indians in the 2010 Census.
- NCAI staff will go over how the webinar works.
- It is safe – all names are stripped from information during analysis. Supreme Court ruled that the Census overrules the US Patriot Act Census encourages AIANs to call their tribe and ask for the name they want them to use. Very difficult for people to do – sometimes they don’t have a phone to call and dependent upon distance, cannot go and “ask” their tribal officials. Tribes are large bureaucracies – when calling the information number for a tribe, it will be difficult to find the person who is handling census activity. There are more than 564 federally recognized tribes and many of them reside in an urban area. Many people claim more than one tribe, products of intermarriages. The census does not state that people can put up to 2 tribal names. AIANs get confused with the US Census, thinking it is their CIB being asked for. The US Census is self-selection for being AIAN. In the urban area, we sometimes get people walking in our doors that still reside on the reservation. That makes it important, that through outreach, we discuss how the census is being administered both on and off reservations.
- Road Tour: over 350+ attendees Census Traveling Road Tour Event, the only one in Phoenix metro-area. DJ music, performers – flute music and hoop dancer, speakers – Patti Hibbeler, Phoenix Indian Center CEO/ Sheila Morago, Arizona Indian Gaming Association ED/ Staffer from Congressman Pastor’s Office – $5 Census Meal Deal (taco/dessert/drink)/ artists selling crafts and more! Faith Based Outreach: distributed brochure and messages to be inserted in church bulletins the weekend of March 28 th – delivered to 6 AI churches in the area Business Outreach Event: Census $3 Breakfast and $5 Lunch Deal at five Native American Restaurants and one coffee house in the valley. Customers can come by and learn about the Census and support their local businesses. Prizes will be given along with a coupon for a return visit. All businesses participating have been business partners promoting the census. The coffee house is owned by a local DJ that volunteered his services, at no cost, for our January Traveling Road Show Event! Focus this day is also on AI college and HS youth. Sent pizzas for lunch to 6 local colleges and two high schools. Volunteers will be present to promote and talk abou the Census. A flyer has been widely distributed along with a press release to local media. Assistance Forum to be held at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center in conjunction with their Kids Health Fair from 10AM to 2PM, culminating in an Easter egg hung. Expect 700+ persons to attend. The Census will be highlighted with 6+ volunteers at a table to help people fill out their census and get it in the mail. A free census meal will also be offered to all attendees. We will be giving away prizes: t-shirts, posters, stress balls, water bottles, lunch bags, a booth set up to help answer and fill out census forms. A mailbox is nearby for mailing of completed census forms. Media releases are going out this week for the event.
- We designed this so it would be easy to download each section of the toolkit to use as stand alone flyers for events. We are also providing hard copies of the toolkits free of charge. One of the questions that is asked quite a bit is how to be counted as American Indian or Alaska Native and how to list your enrolled tribe.
- The free promotional materials are made available so that the Census is celebratory, fun, and engaging.
- Well, we’ve simplified the process, thanks to additional resources from our funders. Instead of navigating through the spreadshirt store online, which is still available for use without making a pledge, users will be able to pledge to execute outreach activities and will receive a free tribal t-shirt.