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

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

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…

There are still third world conditions that exist in my tribal community, and many tribal communities nationwide.

I find it very hard to believe that the effort will help protect sacred sites when, in fact, to the contrary, that has not been what was going on now.