This statement comes from Leornard Crowdog.

The document is dated August, 2000, and is signed by Leornard Crowdog and 19 other signatures. The document is notarized.

We the Nation of our Tribes of Internation Tribes of Declaration of our Original Peoples, we truly understand, for the matter of the record, by the evidence of the Four Sacred Mountains. We are the code dreamers, we see for the generations, theses are the remains of our ancestors territory, we are the caretakers of the elements of this sacred land.

We the Chiefs will ratify and endorse the enclosed document that we clearly are the understanding of the Balance of the Land that is sacred to the Dine' Nation.

Before the Dine nation the Natural Proceedings of the Beginning of the Creation there were the Natural Laws and Natural order of life.

Due to the safety of the Dine Nation unborn and born, we have invited the Dine Nation to Rosebud, South Dakota to secure Indigenous Rights.

We hereby stand in alliance with the Dine Nations rights, both Human Rights and Religious Freedom Rights to ensure their Religious Ties to their Territory and Sacred Homelands.

Declaration of the Council of Chiefs at Crowdogs Sundance.