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Indian rights are just that, rights.
These have all been adjudicated over the last century and today in an unfriendly and hostile environment with the United States and many of its citizens extremely reluctant to recognize the lawful and rightful claim we have on the lands of North America. Natives would not have a square inch of land today if the United Sates had not felt it convenient to preserve a semblance of legality in American, English and International law of their theft of the continent. In our opinion then, it can only reflect positively upon United States culture when an Indian or Indians exerts or exercises his or her rights in this country, as an Indigenous person. And we respect those who help us do so. Many issues in history, racist determination , economic , political , and religiously motivated ethnocide are part of the story of our Costanoan people in modern California.