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SEPTEMBER 11, 2000

Tribal leaders throughout the country are weighing in on Kevin Gover's apology last Friday.

Leaders of three Connecticut tribes were generally pleased and said Gover was very sincere.

Others have appeared more cautious of the apology, saying the effects of years of abuse are already done and nothing will bring lost language, culture, and land back.

"It's too late. All the ones we should apologize to are gone. For my grandmother, it's no good for her," Jeanette Morrison, 61, Muckleshoot, told The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Lloyd Tortalita, the Governor of Acoma Pueblo of New Mexico said :If we could get an apology from the whole government, that would be better."

Get Gover's Speech:
Remarks of Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Department of the Interior at the Ceremony Acknowledging the 175th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Kevin Gover 9/8)

Get the Story:
Local Tribal Leaders Appreciate Apology Issued By BIA Head (The New London Day 8/11)
Indians receive apology from BIA (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 8/11)
Indian Affairs head apologies for agency's 'legacy of racism' (AP 9/8)

Relevant Links:
The Bureau of Indian Affairs - www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html

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