KEVIN GOVER

[Tribal] Sovereignty is just a means to an end. The end is healthy, happy and safe communities.

There is great good will on Capitol Hill for the tribes but virtually none for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The decimation of the mighty bison herds, the use of poison alcohol to destroy mind and body, and the cowardly killing of women and children made for tragedy on a scale so ghastly that it cannot be dismissed as merely the consequence of the clash of competing ways of life.

This agency participated in the ethnic cleansing that befell the Western tribes …. By accepting the legacy we accept the moral responsibility of putting things right.

The decimation of the mighty bison herds, the use of poison alcohol to destroy mind and body, and the cowardly killing of women and children made for tragedy on a scale so ghastly that it cannot be dismissed as merely the consequence of the clash of competing ways of life.

This agency participated in the ethnic cleansing that befell the Western tribes …. By accepting the legacy we accept the moral responsibility of putting things right.

[Tribal] Sovereignty is just a means to an end. The end is healthy, happy and safe communities.

There is great good will on Capitol Hill for the tribes but virtually none for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.