Ryan Zinke actually said...

"As Interior Secretary, Mr. Zinke will fill a key role in the government-to-government relationship with Shakopee and every other tribal government."

"The Administration has an opportunity to foster a new economic period of productivity."

"Many reservations continue to struggle, as we are all aware."

"All of what the Shakopee Tribe does, for others, and with other governments, rests on one basic foundation--the Shakopee Tribe is a government, a sovereign, worthy of respect by other sovereign govern..."