If I say anything, that, I think , is the important thing each and everyone of us faces. We anticipate 30 million visitors coming to North Dakota during the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. He told the crowd it was necessary to have the circle of elders around to provide advise on sharing stories and the richness of the culture. Tourism is part of the nation- building process, Hall said. Most every American Indian nation in this country is in the process of land acquisition, the buying back of land of the original treaty land areas.
Tourism is a huge economic development.
Hall said for the first time, his tribe developed a tourism department. And so we have planned development. We also have our cultural protection department. We gave them more duties. We have also developed a film department.