The tribe has a vested interest in making sure the resources are protected for future generations. It's not part of tribal culture to decimate a resource.

It's got to be a site that's meaningful from an astrological point of view, but we don't want it to be in place that's so hostile that scientists and people won't go there.

We generated some documentation and we went to an international symposium and made our presentation and suddenly we went from the basement to attic in terms of credibility.

People accepted Canada as having a responsible solution to a very large telescope.

This instrument can literally look back to the beginning of time. It can look at galaxies, planetary systems. It can look essentially for life. A lot of the unanswered questions now will possibly be discovered by this telescope.