Contact: Remi Bald Eagle
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Phone 605-964-4155
Fax 605-964-4151
remi.baldeagle@crst-nsn.gov

FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
January 7, 2019

Chairman Harold C. Frazier statement regarding Partial Government
Shutdown
Yet again the United States government has shutdown services due to the inability
of government officials to run it. I have been told that all of this is due to a wall that the
President of the United States wants to build. I condemn the actions of the President of
the United States and the Federal government.
If the President of the United States wants to build something that would make
America great again, then build bridges. Build bridges to span the division that the
President’s spoiled child rhetoric has created. Build bridges between people, cultures,
societies or nations and if that is too hard then at least build bridges in our aging
infrastructure of roads. The President of the United States should quit trying to build a
wall that would have been better served at Plymouth Rock in 1492.
The truth of the matter is that the Native American people will suffer during this
partial shutdown. The United States’ treaty obligations to native nations is the first thing
to be thrown out the door during this shutdown. Indigenous people are not immigrants to
this land. Have we not suffered enough because of the immigrants the United States
brought to this land?

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