ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS: MEDIA ADVISORY

NATIONAL CHIEF ADDRESSES 2025 INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS TOURISM CONFERENCE, CALLS TO REDIRECT U.S. TOURISM DOLLARS TO FIRST NATIONS DESTINATIONS

(February 26, 2025 – Montreal, QC) – National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak will be  on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee  Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg peoples in Montreal, Quebec  (QC), to deliver a keynote address at the 2025 International Indigenous Tourism  Conference (IITC). National Chief Woodhouse Nepinak will be available to speak to the  media following her address to discuss the need to redirect United States tourism dollars  to First Nations destinations in Canada. 

Media are also invited to attend her address to the conference. Details are as follows: 

Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 

Time: 10:15 am EST 

Location: Palais de Congres Montreal,  

159 Saint-Antoine St. W. 9th floor,  

Montreal, PQ H2Z 1H2 

The National Chief will be available for media interviews during her visit.  –30– 

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For more information, please contact: 

Genna Benson 

Director of Communications Assembly of First Nations (604) 340-3117 (mobile)

Contact Regional Chief Joanna Bernard

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