One in three Native American women will experience sexual assault in her lifetime. This is an atrocity.
We can help change the world.
The 49-step process that you allude to is, I think, absolutely abysmal. It is something that needs to be fixed.
I believe the economic stimulus package... there will be a significant infusion into Indian Country.
We will try in the months ahead to see whether we can bring that litigation to conclusion.
Methamphetamine is the scourge of the Indian reservations across the entire Country.
that is why we support Senator Dodd's bill and fair regulation of the marketplace.
It is going to be very important that that whole agenda is one that is fully shared by our Native American communities.
If I may, Chairman Dorgan, one of the realities of this Department that I have frankly discovered in the first few weeks that I have been th...
The problems we have with health care... are simply exacerbated over what we see with non-Native American communities.
The issues of Native Americans are not to be partisan issues, they are not to be Democrat or Republican issues.
I understand very much what happens with lawlessness in reservations.
We need your help. You know what the issues are and you have spoken to them so eloquently over the years.
For me and many of you who know my own story, you know that I strongly believe that education is the keystone to everything else.
President Obama is committed to making sure that we change the conditions in Indian Country, all across the Country.
I think tribal colleges, Senator Tester, are very important in terms of creating the kind of educated workforce that is needed to bring abou...
It is going to take a steady hand and a long-term sustainable commitment to address these issues.
I hope we can figure out something that we can do here.
