Leader says tribes stronger through self-determination

→Reducing the bureaucracy that delays energy development and other business development on Indian lands.

→Giving tribes the same tax status that states and cities have for bonds, pension plans and other financial instruments.

→Fixing the coordination and funding problems that hinder effective law enforcement on Indian land.

→A remedy to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Interior Secretary doesn’t have the authority to take land into trust for tribes that weren’t under federal jurisdiction before 1934.