First Nations Meet with President Obama - 400 tribes


	First Nations Meet with President Obama - 400 tribes

nedhamson1

11-4-2009 5:33 PM

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nedhamson1 says:

The last such meeting - of this size - took place more than one hundred years ago. Let's hope much progress is made and that more than 200 years of shameful exploitation by Washington of the tribal nations takes a positive path now.

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