#257. Alicia A. McMillen
With respect to indigenous (and other marginalized) peoples, I often feel the term "American Justice" is an oxymoron. I hope future generations will disagree.

#246. Teresa Kurtzhall
Why must we keep asking for what was given to us? God see's what you have & are doing, you will reap all you sow.

#238. Tina Windholz
Our Native Americans have suffered enough!!! Please give their land back. The greed of the land stealers needs to be halted and give back which was legally their land!!!They have a GREAT HERITAGE and need to be RECOGNIZED as a TRIBE!!!

#236. Elwynn G. Akey Jr.
As a Native American I understand this dilema as I live In Pennsylvania, which is one of thirteen States that refuse to recognize the Native People as a people unto themselves and have us all registered as WHITE. Who says that discrimination is a past in this country? We have to live this life as an unidentifiable people still in these times. Why can't we all live in peace and harmony? Give us our heritage, our own lands and dignity of who we are.

#225. Mary E. Rondeaux
As usual, as long as North America refuses to look at how it has established itself and does not make restitution with the Sovereign Nations of this country, we will forever remain a vocal skeleton's in its closet.

#223. Chulita Hughes
I'm Cherokee Indian and the rights of all Indians have been ignored for years. We have become foreigners in our own homeland.

#213. Anna Schmasow
One word, Repatriation.

#188. Shirley Stephens
While we honor the contributions of Sacajawea, it's time to acknowledge her people, the Lemhi Shoshone, with the restoration of federal recognition.

#182. Orlan J. Svingen
Until Sacajawea's people, the Lemhi Shoshone, have their federal recognition restored, the bicentennial celebration of the Corps of Discovery will ring hollow.

#172. Roberta Altman
This website and issues discussed here will be part of the study of the Lewis and Clark expedition we are carrying out with 2,000 school children in the South Bronx. Thanks for the thorough information. We will use it well.

#164. Cindy Williams
We cannot as Salmon residents sit by and profit from this history and not stand up to right this wrong and support this cause. Faliure to do so only makes us cowards and profit mongers. How can we, as Salmon citizens, hope to prosper in the Sacagawea Center and not stand up to bring her children home again. Only then will these endevors be blessed by her spirit and the spirit of her people.

#157. T'cha-Mi'iko
The Lemhi's need to have the land they were promised, by the Creator and by the United States Government. How else can the Government expect to have US citizens respect and support, if it does not give respect and support itself?

#126. Virginia Bache
I want to return home, we are not prisoners of war. Many of our peoples have already past away, sadly they never return to their beloved land. My heart cries everytime I think about my ancestors and our young peoples. Please help us in our dream, and may the creator watch over all of the peoples, who has help us.

#123. Wi Shi Kepto
Return the land to the Native Peoples and stop excluding them from their constitutional rights. You are the visitors so behave like visitors. Educate and teach the truth, get rid of all the misconceptions.

#122. Larissa Simpson
I am guest-teaching a high school history class very soon and plan to pass along information about the Lemhi-Shoshone predicament to students. The government's behavior in this case, and countless others, was and continues to be intolerable.

#113. Regina Kay Behme
I became aware of the Shoshone Bannock thru Wiley Petersen a professional bullrider. Because Wiley is such an outstanding citizen, I felt interested in his background. I was not aware that this is the tribe of the famous Indian maiden I studied in school as a child. This denial of the rights of her tribe is a national disgrace.

#106. Griselda Guzman
Mrs. Guzman's 3rd grade class, Eliot Elem., feels that it is important to be part of this petition because we feel that the Indians should be in their home land.

#98. Edward L. Elliott
How can we say to the world that we are better than others when we cannot treat our own people fairly? Sometimes I am ashamed to be a white man. This is one of those times.

#87. Veronica Anne Faulseit
Having family ties to Lemhi Shoshone ...In future I would like to be able to bring my children to visit the home of our ancestors and to be able to be recongnized as part of the Lemhi Shoshone Tribe.

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