Obama promises to include US Indians in ‘American dream’
Thursday, November 5th, 2009WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama on Thursday told a gathering of US tribal leaders in Washington that he was committed to giving Native Americans an equal chance at the “American dream.”
Few US groups “have been more marginalized and ignored by Washington for as long as native Americans,” Obama told the leaders of 564 tribes that the federal government recognizes and who were invited to Washington for the event.