Action Quote by Stephen Colbert

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about…

— Jack Abramoff

I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

— Erin Brockovich

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with…

— Thomas Carper

The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory…

— Conan O'Brien

The INVEST in America Act will make critical, long over-due investments in tribal infrastructure - something I've been pushing for since I first began…

— Sharice Davids

The case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is exactly why Congress can pass legislation as it did with the Rio Tinto land mine deal because…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian…

— Stephen Colbert

I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact…

— Wes Studi

“If this situation is going to change, then the call to Honour the Treaties needs to go a whole lot further than raising money…

— Naomi Klein

“The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

“George Arthur, a tribal council delegate, spoke on behalf of the tribe. Arthur was a chairman, too, of the Navajo legislature's resources committee. .…

— Judy Pasternak