caption: Audience members listen to a speaker at the conference `` <PERSON>, Native Politics.'' The conference materials included this statement: ``Politics requires more than voting; it requires knowledge of law, organization, identity, history, and culture. <PERSON> communities are sovereign nations within the United States, yet must still negotiate politically within a federal democratic system that at times inconsistently honors their rights, their land and water, and their ways of life.''
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