This event is sponsored by The Kokomo Native Project, an alliance of organizations in Howard County, Indiana, including the City of Kokomo, the Kokomo Early History Learning Center, Inc., the Howard County Historical Society, and Indiana University Kokomo. The Project creates programs and activities in support of INAIAC to educate the community and to help Native people learn more about services and support available to them in northcentral Indiana.

Honoring that heritage is the theme of the event. The public is invited to attend. The symposium is for educational purposes on what the tribe is doing today and how they have evolved.

This training is designed to give reporters an overview of the power of Census Bureau data for storytelling. Reporters will learn how to access and use demographic, socioeconomic, housing, and business data that can be used to identify trends, as well as generate and enhance news stories. They will also learn how to navigate data.census.gov and other