Dan Kildee actually said...

"The Indians are certainly capable of determining what is a good use of their land, and they should at least be at the table as an equal, sovereign to sovereign relationship."

"They are sovereign nations with sovereign lands with all the attendant rights of sovereign nations."

"I really want to do what is right for the Indians under our Constitution and among their sovereignty, which they had long before the Constitution was written."

"The Indians, John Marshall tells us, have retained sovereignty. It is not something we gave them."