I appreciate the opportunity to testify today before members of the Subcommittee.
Through this new approach, the Committee hopes rural communities target investment to boost economic development by harnessing their strengt...
If you could guarantee that everyone would be as fit as you if they ate Tanka Bars----
I have seen that culture change in North Dakota.
I feel like we may be creating, if we do not watch it, a system that we hope will reward people for doing things regionally.
We have an underutilized resource in America. It is called 'rural America.'
I share Mr. Tilsen's concern about housing all across Indian country.
As you mention in your testimony, one of the three key areas the President's fiscal year 2015 budget focuses on is managing wildland fires.
I put forward the Native American Children's Safety Act which would provide additional protection for Native American children in foster hom...
I found out recently, and it has been in the media, that two infants have died on the Spirit Lake Reservation.
I think everyone wants to get out of the business of being paternalistic.
I did a little work on State taxation in Indian country. I would dispute some of your statements.
I would really encourage your help and support on that legislation in terms of getting at some of the red tape and some of the challenges th...
I hope so.
I think one of the biggest complaints that I hear repeatedly in Indian country is that the system of Federal regulation treats these as if t...
Senator Dorgan once said it takes four agencies and 49 steps. I think with the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, we say it is seven agenci...
You do understand their problem with this distinction of public land versus tribal land?
What we want to do is build out that capacity of self-determination.
