Once again, federal recognition remains a lightning rod for a host of other issues targeting Indian Country. This panelist, invited by Republican Subcommittee Chairman Don Young to a hearing on whether the BIA has the right to recognize tribes, had these inflammatory things to say:

"In his written testimony, Mitchell cited without censure Andrew Jackson’s sweeping policy of ethnic cleansing that was part of the 1830 Indian Removal Act, the Allotment Act, which destroyed reservations, and the termination policy, which aimed at erasing Indian identity through assimilation into mainstream American society. He also advocated for the use of 'blood quantum' – a Euro-American strategy of genocide – to determine Indian identity."

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