{"id":806,"date":"2021-11-10T15:48:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2021-11-10T15:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:48:58","slug":"celebrating-native-american-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Native American Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November marks Native American Heritage Month! Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) kicked off the commemoration with a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MxdxJg8dM8I\">video hosted by PASS\u2019s own Ranelle Yazzie<\/a>. Yazzie is a member of the Din\u00e9 (Navajo) People; her maternal clan is Red House and her paternal clan is Bitter Waters. She is the National President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/naanfaa.org\/naanfaa\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native American Alaska Native Coalition for Federal Aviation Employees<\/a> (NAAN). She is a logistics program coordinator for the FAA in Utah and has been a public servant for nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Said PASS National President Dave Spero, \u201cThe FAA associations celebrating the various ethnicities and affinities among employees are a great way to learn more about one another, our backgrounds and our heritage. I want to encourage all the employees we represent to get more involved with the diversity and inclusiveness these groups exemplify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAAN has a number of events planned for this month, which can be found on the association\u2019s website. \u201cWe have members of NAAN who represent many tribes and I\u2019m sure they would be happy to talk to you about their heritage,\u201d said Yazzie. \u201cWe welcome all FAA employees as members, you do not need to be descended from an indigenous people.\u201d There are many more events for this month across government agencies and you can learn about them <a href=\"https:\/\/nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November marks Native American Heritage Month! Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) kicked off the commemoration with a&nbsp;video hosted by PASS\u2019s own Ranelle Yazzie. Yazzie is a member of the Din\u00e9 (Navajo) People; her maternal clan is Red House and her paternal clan is Bitter Waters. She is the National President of the Native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}