First speaker talks bout how the trial affects her personally because she?s Indian, it will affect her children, and says anything in that courtroom affect all Indians in the country, if treaties aren?t honored every Indian in the country will be affected. Second speaker says the Indians were first here. White people and immigrants who came here have a lot to learn about how to relate to the land and live in a cooperative and communal way. Indians know how to make use of resources and land without damaging and exploiting it.
SPEAKER 1: It affects me personally because my children will be affected by it when I have any. They will be Indian. And anything that happens in that courtroom will affect the entire Indian population in the country. If the treaties are honored, then every American Indian in the country will be affected by that honoring of the treaty.
SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I feel a personal stake because I think that the Indian people are the first people to live on this continent, and they know something that-- white people and immigrants who came here have a lot to learn about how to relate to the land and how to live in a cooperative and communal way. And I think that the Indian people have a really sharp awareness of just how to make use of the resources in the land without damaging and exploiting everything that we have on our continent.