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The Oneida Indian Nation, who’ve garnered headlines across the country recently for their national radio campaign calling for a change to the Washington football team’s racist name and mascot, is organizing a high-level symposium in D.C. next week at the same site where the National Football League is hosting its fall league meeting.

According to a press release, the symposium will take place at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown—the same place where the NFL’s fall league meeting will take place—and will feature talks from a variety of federal legislators, community leaders, and other experts on the controversy, including Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), who serves as co-chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus, director of the National Museum of the American Indian Kevin Gover, and more

There’s no word if representatives from the NFL will be there, but considering it’s in the same place during the same time as the NFL’s fall league meeting, I can imagine one or two people will pop in. Recently, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledge the heavy pressure for the Washington football team to change their name, saying in an interview on 106.7’s The Fan that “if we are offending one person, we need to be listening and making sure that we’re doing the right things to try to address that.”