Our legal principles of any case we bring or any action the Tribe takes legally starts with the fact that the Tribe is a sovereign nation. It has been a sovereign nation since time immemorial. Before any treaties, before the United States, before Lewis and Clark the Tribe functioned had a government and was a sovereign nation and conducted relations and trades with other sovereign tribes within the area now known as the United States. That is where we start. That sovereignty was recognized by the United States in 1855 when a treaty was entered between this nation and the Nez Perce Tribe. That treaty recognized a territory for the Tribe and it is important to remember that treaty rights aren’t something the United State gave to the Tribe. The Nez Perce Tribe in that treaty reserved certain rights to themselves. They reserved the land, they reserved fishing rights, they reserved hunting rights, they reserved rights to gather and graze horses and cattle both within the reservation and outside the reservation. That is where the sovereignty was recognized and since 1855 the Supreme Court and other courts of this nation have recognized treaty rights and the treaty as being the source of sovereignty. That is our legal foundation when we go to any forum that is where we start as far as asserting the sovereignty of the Tribe.