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To this reason i want to address an issue of the National Congress of American Indians which has worked on for almost 50 years, i want to talk about the negative stereotypes that native people continue be subjected to in our society, in particular i want to talk about the name of the washington football team. The state reward the dead indians has been increased to 200 for every redskins centre purgatory. This psalm is more of dead bodies east of the dead river are worse history is clear on what that vile word meant, it was a scout head of an American Indian, man woman or child that trappers and hunters sold to the government like beaver pelts the money. Let me be very clear the single most offensive name you can call an American Indian is red skin. Thank god ....
Three three times, twice to iraq and once to afghanistan. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, lets give one more nevada thank you for these nevada heros [applause] ladies and gentlemen nevada stands at a threshold. We live in a state that is transforming before our eyes, the 21st century companies, jobs and technologies that place us at the forefront of innovation and the new economy. Yet we still operate with decades old funding systems and an education structure that will eventually grind us to an inevitable halt. I know. I know that we have the ability, willingness and determination to do what is necessary. We all, i know, we all want to tell our grand children that we were the architects of the new nevada that we were here when nevada needed us most. Those before us rose to the challenges of their time and built a foundation of the state we all love. The centennial celebration highlighted those achievements. But tonight as we close the chapter on 150 years of history, this is our time ....