. >> i'm katherine cox, and, um, i'm interested in your hopefulness -- i'm being picked up, yes?f the u.n. influence we have on our lives, and i don't know how big a slice of the population, but it's a vocal one who would just as soon our country not really even pay our dues and participate. they say, you know, we aren't bound by what the u.n. says relative to other things, involvement in the globe and what not. so do you, are you optimistic that what the u.n. adopts will actually be honored by our powers that be? >> i'm very optimistic. um, i think that americans are a fundamentally just people and that once educated it's been my experience as an indian attorney, you know, once the larger society has been educated on indigenous issues, they've invariably acted to do the right thing. it's the lack of paucity of public information about native people that is the root cause of all of our current problems, you know? in, maybe, america. and i'm just optimistic now than i will have been, you know, that we're ready for social change, you know? i think, first of all, excuse me, um, we'v