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John Yellow Bird Steele: “For IRS to improve their relationships with the Yakama Nation, they truly have to have a government-to-government…”

On the recordJune 13, 2012
For IRS to improve their relationships with the Yakama Nation, they truly have to have a government-to-government relationship with us.

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Steele calls for better government-to-government relations with the IRS.

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