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one specific program post QA Chief Seattle signed that treaty with the government after witnessing so many deaths that he had (to be) looking out for survival for future generations,” said Rob Purser (Suquamish), director of treaty rights for the Suquamish Tribe. “There wasn’t no way of fighting your way out of that problem.” Leaders, he said, had to work with the colonial government and make some promises in exchange for land. But today, as in Chief Seattle’s time, non-Native governments routinely ignore or reinterpret treaties, leading to dynamic ongoing conversations involving Native ancestors, the U.S. courts and contemporary tribal nations