Bob Burnette came up with the idea of having the Trail of Broken Treaties caravans meet in Washington, D.C. Bob Burnette had been a tribal chairman at the Rosebud Indian Reservation, so Mary feels very proud that someone from her reservation had such an integral role in planning the Trail of Broken Treaties. She does note that, while she is proud of him, she believes that “the feeling of pride in one's particular tribe is stand[s] in the way of Indian unity.”