JuniKae Randall interviews John Echohawk, the executive director of the Native American Rights Fund, about the unique relationship between tribes and the federal government, including treaties and tribal sovereignty. EchoHawk explains treaties, and discusses the rights of sovereign nations regarding the practice of making treaties from first contact in1492 to adoption in the US constitution in 1787. He speaks about the use of interpretors, the difficulty of the process resulting in fairly brief documents.