The federal government signed treaties with tribal nations. Those treaties are law. A president cannot unilaterally dissolve them, reduce land under tribal co-management by executive order, or erase agreements the nation made decades ago just because a new administration disagrees with them.

In 2025, that's exactly what happened. A president reduced a co-managed monument by 90%, dissolved the tribal commission that governed it, and invalidated decades-long agreements with multiple tribal nations. The same administration has threatened the same action on other lands where tribes have co-management authority under existing law.

This isn't a policy disagreement. It's a breach of contract. It's the federal government deciding unilaterally that promises don't matter.

As Senator, Lydia will:

• Oppose any unilateral executive action that reduces lands under tribal co-management or dissolves tribal commissions created by prior law, requiring Congress to approve any such change
• Restore any co-management agreements dissolved by executive order without congressional action, and restore tribal commissions dissolved the same way
• Push for legislation codifying tribal co-governance on federal lands with treaty co-management agreements, making tribes equal negotiating partners with binding decision-making power, not consultation bodies that can be overridden
• Support tribal acquisition and restoration of sacred and historically significant lands, with federal funding for land purchases when tribes identify them as priorities
• Protect tribal treaty rights to water, fishing, hunting, and harvesting on traditional lands, and oppose federal permitting or resource extraction that violates those rights
• Oppose any federal action that treats historical treaties as outdated or subject to revision by executive order

Tribal nations are sovereigns. The treaties are law. That principle doesn't change when administrations do.