but i'm ashamed right now of the arm of the protection agency the bureau of indian affairs the department the interior because they've spent all this time talking to us telling you this you know what they think we want to hear but if you drive through picher and drive down down to the road it looks the same as it did when they turned off the pumps of the walk. no one cares about the people that live there this is not a safe place to live it's a good place there's good people here and it's not fit there been whispers about buying this place out since it was named the superfund in eighty three i mean horrible water all this mine waste direct danger to children they couldn't get the help they needed. should have been easier to put a buyout together. whether it's a dioxin scare they want to build a lake or highway somewhere buyouts happen all the time. and human health dangers here seem to qualify plus stark regretted and said an ace in the hole oklahoma senior senator jim in off a chair of the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee over seas and directs the e.p

>> they're members of their own nation and the federal government -- the bureau of indian affairs who they deal with is the federal government. the people who are sovereign nation, this is one of the things going on in the trail of tears. that ross was pleading for but never going to happen once stay here as an independent sovereign nation which we are and somehow get along because we honor tribal laws and independence. they were going to take over their land. how disrespectful can you be? that is why the cherokees and other indian nations deal with the federal government. [inaudible] >> u.s. citizens and -- >> they try to get through travel -- they keep the boundaries of the united states. >> it is a u.s. export. [talking over each other] >> in terms of internet travel you think about u.s. exports. >> a cherokee passport? >> that travel internationally. you could go to the tse a or the cherokee nation or a u.s. exports. they would have one. [talking over each other] >> a sovereign nation or within boundaries. >> that is legal or the indian nation is making independent deals with the

so the bia, bureau of indian affairs, is who they deal with in the government as befits people who area sovereign nation, and this was one of the things going on on the trail of tears that ross was pleading for, let us stay here as an independent, sovereign nation, and we'll somehow get along. just honor our tribal laws and our independence and sovereignty. well, they weren't about to do that because they were going to take over their land. how disrespectful can you be right off the bat as that represented? so, no, that's why, you know, the cherokees like all other indian nations deal with the federal government. >> the american indian didn't become a u.s. citizen until about 1920. >> yeah, it was in '20s. there are u.s. citizens who also are members of an independent nation. >> well, speaking of sovereign nation issues, did they try to get their own pass ports or travel under the citizenship of their tribe or -- [inaudible] >> i think it's a u.s. passport, pure and simple. yeah, it's a dual citizenship thing. what trumps it is travel, you're talking about a u.s. passport. >> yeah. but