Ned Norris Jr.: “I find it very hard to believe that the effort will help protect sacred sites when, in fact, to the contrary, that has…”

The Nation fully supports the purpose of Title IX, which is to strengthen tribal sovereignty and reaffirm tribal jurisdiction over non-Indian perpetrators.

We will never agree to a wall that is being built. We will never agree to what is being built now and this desecration of our sacred sites.

We have raised these concerns numerous times, numerous times to Federal folks on the impacts that this border wall will have on our people.

A wall is extremely expensive for the American taxpayer, is ineffective in remote geographic areas like ours, and is highly destructive to the religious, cultural and environmental resources on which our members rely and which make our…