Ned Norris Jr.: “The disrespect for our cultural resources is painful for us and a symptom of the dangerous way in which IIRIRA has been…”

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

The Nation fully supports the purpose of Title IX, which is to strengthen tribal sovereignty and reaffirm tribal jurisdiction over non-Indian perpetrators.

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.

We will never agree to a wall that is being built. We will never agree to what is being built now and this desecration of our sacred sites.