If you could bring Senator Burton Wheeler, who was a progressive Democrat, or Chairman Edgar Howard, the Chairman of the House Indian Committee, back from the dead, and tell them that 80 years later Congress was creating Indian tribes like…
Donald Craig Mitchell
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July 12, 2017
The tribal recognition process back to where it should be, which is in the hands of the Congress, and out of the bureaucracy.
— Donald Craig Mitchell
Absolutely not. Absolutely not. It is not any clearer about what they are signing.
The purposeful violation by an executive branch agency of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers is a serious matter.
The legislative authority of the United States of America is vested by the Constitution exclusively in the Congress, not in the executive branch.
The entire BIA recognition process has been invalid and unlawful since it was invented in 1978.
Sometimes I think we have to understand that democracy means different things to different people over different regions.
How do we justify to the Cambodians that that is a better form of campaign or democracy when the majority of the people did not determine who should be our next President?
Forced land evictions at the end of the day are just a bad business practice.
And if we could repeal the 16th Amendment and put it so deep under the ground that no Supreme Court could possibly let an income tax ever spring up to haunt us again, then either a VAT or some sort of national retail sales tax would be a…





