Association on American Indian Affairs
| Formation | 1922 |
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| Type | NGO |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Headquarters | 966 Hungerford Drive Suite 30A Rockville, MD 20850 |
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Executive Director
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Kimberly A. Dutcher |
| Website | www |
The Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA) is a non-profit organization promoting the welfare of American Indians and Alaska Natives. AAIA is among the oldest Native American Indian advocacy groups in the United States, and has helped create the Indian Child Welfare Act, helped preserve Native American lands, and continues to improve the quality of life for Native Americans in the United States.
The mission of AAIA is to promote the welfare of American Indians and Alaska Natives by supporting efforts to sustain and perpetuate their cultures and languages; to protect their sovereignty, constitution, law and human rights and natural resources; and to improve their health, education, and economic development and community development.
The AAIA has defended the rights and promoted the welfare of Native Americans and, in this process, has shaped the views of their fellow citizens. The Association on American Indian Affairs was started in New York in 1922 as the Eastern Association on Indian Affairs while trying to assist a group of Pueblo people who were fighting efforts to dismantle their pueblos. In 1946, the name was changed to the Association on American Indian Affairs. In 1957, the organization was granted non-profit, 501(c)(3) status for federal tax purposes. The AAIA has waged innumerable battles over the years, touching on the material and spiritual well-being of Indians in all 50 United States states: from the right of Native Americans to control their resources to their right to worship freely; from their right to federal trusteeship to their right to self-determination.
Association timeline
1922 AAIA is formed
1922 AAIA helps Pueblos protect land and water rights
1945 AAIA helps to establish National Congress of American Indians
1948 First college scholarship awarded
1956 AAIA establishes Field Health Nursing program
1968 AAIA begins effort to prevent Otitis Media on Indian reservations
1968 AAIA works to protect Taos Blue Lake
1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act enacted
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