Ned Norris Jr.: “Most of all, it is a return to a dishonorable era of Federal Indian policy.”

However, the language added to Section 901... jeopardizes the long-term enforcement of the law and detracts from the key purpose of Title IX.

I have an obligation to speak for my people.

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…

We have not been given that opportunity to sit as a Tribal government with the U.S. Government to have this conversation.