Leonard Peltier Quotes About Sovereignty

Quotes about: Sovereignty

• United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.

  Leonard Peltier

  Native American, Law, Rights

  Source: montanapioneer.com

• The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if elected, has promised us. For us, we should implement the most impor-tant programs right now: they are programs to teach the children a positive sense of dignity, self-worth, and the importance of sustaining their culture, history, language and honor as a people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Children, Self Worth, Issues

  Source: montanapioneer.com

• With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties.

  Leonard Peltier

  Rights, Empowerment, Needs

  Source: montanapioneer.com

• There are tribes, I should say nations, which prior to the AIM movement had only ten or fifteen employees, and now have upwards of 2000. There are educational programs that didn't exist before, there are housing programs, health programs, senior citizen programs, cultural programs and the list goes on. It's all because some people stood up and said sovereignty is our right by treaty and the constitution says treaty law is the supreme law of the land.

  Leonard Peltier

  Senior, Educational, Law

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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