Sec. 2. Purposes
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The purposes of this Act are— to acknowledge the chronic failure of the Federal Government— to fulfill its trust responsibilities to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Indian Tribes; and to respect its special political and legal relationship with Native Hawaiians; to acknowledge the treaty obligations of the Federal Government to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Indian Tribes, which have never been fulfilled; to ensure progress toward the fulfillment of trust and treaty obligations of the Federal Government; to ensure progress toward adequate funding for programs for American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Indian Tribes; to reaffirm and uphold Tribal sovereignty and self-governance; and to acknowledge the broken promises of the Federal Government to Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiians, as embodied by— the failure to uphold treaty obligations; the failure to fund programs that should have been fully funded in exchange for the loss of life and indigenous homelands; the ceded land and stolen natural resources from Tribal lands; and the acts taken to extinguish Native American culture and the traditions of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.