federally recognized Native American tribe in the United States

In their myths, this tribe says that the west wind is created by Animakeg, the thunder.

LBID, Indian Tribes, Vol.

5, p. 420.

End footnote As it is in the south that in the country of the Ojibwes the lightning is last seen in the autumn, and as the Algonquins, both in their language and pictography, were accustomed to assimilate the lightning in its zigzag course to the sinuous motion of the serpent, the meteorological character of this myth is very manifest.

That the Indians of the United States have directly and positively degenerated in a moral sense as a race since the introduction of Christianity was also very decidedly the opinion of the late Professor Theodore Waitz, a most competent ethnologist.

See Die Indianer Nordamerikas, Eine Studie von Theodore Waitz, page 39, etc., Leipzig 1865.

This opinion was also that of the visiting committee of the Society of Friends, who reported on the Indian tribes in 1842.

See The Report of a Visit to Some of the Tribes of Indians West of the Mississippi River by John D. Lang and Samuel Taylor Jr., New York 1843.

Quapaw is, as I said, a tiny little rural town, a population of about 800 people, not far from Joplin, Missouri.

It serves as the capital of the Quapaw Native American Nation.

And

as it turns out, it's one of several locations in the United States known for what we call spook lights or earth lights.

It's everything from buildings to battlefields.

But even so, some organizations, including Native American tribes, have struggled to participate in this list.

Here to tell us more is GAO's

Ana Maria Ortiz.

I could only find one other instance of the FBI using the word promise in the title of an operation.

In this context, a name is designed as an institutional vow to tribal nations.

It is a strategic effort to signal transparency, build public trust, and assure communities that federal resource surges are a permanent fixture, not a fleeting political trend.

Operation Steadfast Promise has a wide lens, tactical offensive, targeting macro threats on reservations, including transnational drug cartels, criminal gangs, weapons trafficking, child sex predators, and fugitive apprehension.

We're less than five miles from the northern border, and if you look around out the windows of the truck here, look how wide open this is.

And not only is it more, is it remote, as Montana is in general for everybody in Montana, but we're in the middle of the Blackfeet Tribal Nation that goes from northern Montana, right by Glacier National Park, all the way through Canada, and house part of their tribe, uh, on the Canadian province.

So what border protection are we going to have? How effective can it be in this spans? Now, we might go through a check station, but we'll find a spot where we can go out and just look over a prairie like that.

And this is wide open country.

We're still on the United States side.

And this is still, um, Blackfeet Nation, right?

Yeah, we are on Blackfeet Tribal Nation land.

Like you said, Kat, we have the Canadian border not far behind us.