L Magazine Cover

The next issue of L Magazine, Lincoln's premier lifestyle magazine, will feature Judi gaiashkibos, Executive Director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs.

Corn Restoration Project

Senator Louden

Youth Leadership Service Project

NCIA Attends Inter-Tribal Meeting in KS

NCIA staff traveled to Kansas last week to attend an Inter-Tribal meeting with the Kansas Commission on Indian Affairs, the Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, and the Sac and Fox Nation.  Items discussed were updates about projects and issues each agency/tribe is currently engaged in and the possibility of including the Ioway Tribe and Sac and Fox Nation on the Board of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs. 

2012 One Book One Nebraska: "I Am a Man"

Joe Starita, author of "I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice and professor of Native Daughters at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Journalism, poses with NCIA Executive Director Judi gaiashkibos after Governor Heinman signed a proclamation encouraging Nebraskan's to read Joe Starita's work as part of One Book One Nebraska 2012.

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Governor's State of the State Address

NCIA Executive Director Judi gaiashkibos, NCIA Chairwoman and Commissioner Jennifer Bear Eagle, and Nebraska State Senator and State-Tribal Relations Committee Chair Scott Price together after Governor Dave Heineman's State of the State Address.

Artwork by Sovereign Native Youth Leaders

January 9-13, 2012, the Sovereign Native Youth Leadership Program's artwork was on display on the 1st floor of the State Capitol Building.  Artwork was created by high school students in the program who represent the Ioway, Omaha, Ponca, Santee, and Winnebago Tribes during one of the monthly field trips organized by NCIA.  Students worked with world renowned glass artist and Seminole Indian Therman Statom in conjunction with KANEKO and Hot Shops Art Center in Omaha, Nebraska.  The program is funded by a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Winnebago Luncheon

Winnebago activist Frank LaMere, Ho-Chunk Inc CEO Lance Morgan, NCIA Executive Director Judi gaiashkibos, Winnebago Tribal Chairman John Blackhawk, and Nebraska State Senator Dave Bloomfield pictured at the Winnebago Annual Luncheon at the State Capitol Building in January, 2012.

UNL Diversity Leadership Symposia

NCIA Director Judi gaiashkibos is pictured here with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. after his speech at the Diversity Leadership Symposia, coordinated by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center and the Office of Admissions.

LB 1002

Pictured at right is Bruce Bonfleur, Director of The ABOUT Group, who received a grant from LB 1002, a bill that Nebraska State Senator LeRoy Louden (pictured at left) introduced while working with NCIA Director Judi gaiashkibos (pictured at center).

Chief Standing Bear Breakfast 2011

Joseph Marshall III waits to give the keynote address at the 6th Annual Chief Standing Bear Breakfast.

Veterans