The United States has more than 400 signed treaties with sovereign nations, promising services in exchange for Indigenous land. The Trump administration’s plan to gut the federal government, including the Department of the Interior, to give tax cuts to billionaires, threatens to violate our sacred obligation to Indian land.

Violating these treaties would mean:

• Jeopardizing education, food and other essential services for more than 40,000 Native American children in Bureau of Indian Education schools (including two tribal colleges: Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas and the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in New Mexico);
• Endangering the financial assets of American Indians held in trust;
• Failing to maintain the archives of American Indian records;
• Risking the lives of law enforcement officers on native land; and
• Ceasing to provide direct technical assistance and support to Indian country.

Working people, including those on Native land, are squeezed by the cost-of-living crisis. These actions will do nothing to give working people the relief they need. They only serve to harm Indigenous people and put the U.S. government at risk of violating the treaties it has signed.

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