When tribes can control their affairs--their education system, their health care system--and individual tribal members know where the decisions are made, it is not somewhere hundreds or thousands of miles away, it is in their community with their own leadership that they can hold responsible they do better.
Cole emphasizes the importance of tribal control over local governance.
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