You told my staff earlier this year it costs approximately 30 to 50 million dollars to replace a BIE school.

Thank you for your leadership as a Chair. We're going to miss you when you leave in January.

In White Earth's contract with the BIA for the school construction, this is once you got funding, in the contract, the agency, the BIA, has 21 days to respond to each of the Tribe's submitted plans for construction of the school, yet there…

Does the BIA care about my school? Do they even care?

In recognition of 9/11, and I left out the plane and the heroes on that plane that crashed in rural Pennsylvania.

We've got to the point that it's become laughable in Indian Country, to the point where a few months back I shared a story with Senator Franken.

So many of these communities don't have that basic infrastructure, is what you're saying?

I think with the school, modular schools, they are probably good buildings and facilities for--I wouldn't consider that, because we want to build a school that's culturally appropriate.

I would urge you to put these online and not have this lack transparency anymore.

We also know our Federal Government has not done as good a job as it should have been doing in meeting those obligations and the promises that have been made.

the education and health care of Native peoples would be taken care of, right?

If you had an actually really well-built school there, then more kids would come, right?

I just want to make sure we know what we're talking about here.

This country said, Do you know what? We'll promise, we'll sign treaties, we'll meet our promise, and we just haven't done it.

You're too busy because you're flooded with money?

This is an obligation that was made by the United States of America, and I think those of us who are on Indian Affairs are very well aware of that.

we're just not keeping our end of the deal.

If the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School truly is in the lower 25 percent of school replacements, I shudder to think what the other 75 percent must look like.