“We will no longer be museum pieces, tourist attractions and politicians’ playthings. There will be no park on this island because it changes the whole meaning of what we are here for. Our answer at this time, and at any other time, is an emphatic no.”
“Government officials were doing what they have done in the past, which is to do our thinking for us and run things their way.”
“Our dead never die.”
“We feel it is our obligation as Indians of All Tribes, Inc., and to the Indian people to ask the government to submit a counterproposal to the proposal we gave them. We will give them until May 11th to do this. We will negotiate on money and the time and the day that they will turn over the deed to this island. That is all that is negotiable.” ~
SOURCE: Desert Sun, p. 3. Volume 43, Number 210