Joe Garcia: “With too few Federal appropriations, Tribes are falling behind the rest of the Nation, and transportation barriers…”

The BIE cannot be trusted to provide a safe environment for our children in the learning environment.

If the BIE doesn't even respond to the Navajo, how in the world do I expect them to... talk to the tribal leaders in the small communities?

That is the binding contract the United States entered into with Tribes, and from those treaties and other laws has arisen the United States' sacred trust responsibility to the Indian Nations and our peoples.

I come from a rich culture in the Pueblo country in Ohkay Owingeh, and so I think it is important that I didn't learn all of the things that I knew about social life and culture and language and all of that in an education setting.