The Nation supports the provisions included in the bipartisan Title IX discussion draft and respectfully requests that members of the Committee become co-sponsors of a full bipartisan Senate VAWA bill.
Ned Norris, Jr. advocates for bipartisan support of the Title IX provisions in the Senate VAWA bill.
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Preservation of history and culture of O'odham is not just important to the Tohono O'odham Nation. It is important to the preservation of the history and culture of the United States.
The Nation respectfully urges that you put an end to this misguided, cynical legislation.
We ask that you see this legislation for what it is: the first time in the modern era in which Congress would unilaterally renege on the solemn promises made by the United States in an Indian land and water rights settlement.
Regardless of whether or not these sites are on or off the Tohono O'odham Nation, we are on this reservation not because we wanted to be on this reservation, but our ancestral lands extended well beyond where our current reservation land…