On a November 3, 2012 KGMI Radio broadcast about Native American tribes, CERA board member Elaine Willman — a featured speaker at the April 6, 2013 Anti-Indian Conference — distorted American Indian treaty history beyond recognition, stating that their special, taxpayer-funded, race-based perks allow them to confiscate natural resources. Not satisfied with calling for the elimination of tribal sovereignty, Willman went on to state that “Tribalism is socialism [and] has no place in our country!”
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