Dan Boren: “The Tohono O'odham Nation has broken the compact into which it entered, thereby rendering the proposed casino in…”

Do not let them use a paring knife to take a little bit of your sovereignty. You have to fight.

I want to commend you both for coming together and sponsoring a single bill to provide for the distribution of these funds.

It does not say Treaty of France or Germany. All treaties, including that Treaty of 1851, supreme law of the land, which guaranteed your sovereignty.

Even though I am a big proponent of oil and gas development, I think when we are talking about sovereignty and tribes having the ability to say we want to do what we want to do on our land, I deeply respect the fact that you have made the…