Abstract: President Obama hosted the third annual Tribal Nations Conference on December 2, 2011. The Conference was attended by hundreds of tribal leaders representing the 565 federally recognized tribes. The meeting was preceded by four regional briefing and listening sessions with senior Administration officials hosted at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on November 30 and December 1. The Conference itself was attended by six members of the President’s cabinet(Secretaries Donovan, Duncan, Salazar, Sebelius, Vilsack, and EPA Administrator Jackson), several members of Congress, and a range of senior Administration officials.
