While many tribal governments continue to fund congressional candidates who promise to increase tribal sovereignty, the voices of the children who are at the mercy of corrupt government continue to go unheard. The truth that must be revealed is that some tribal governments are not protecting the children in their “custody.†Some have said that there are children actually being traded and sold by the very people who are being paid to “foster†them. The Spirit Lake tribal government in North Dakota is not isolated in the mistreatment of children.