03/04/2009
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"It is when we don't expand our table to hear more from those who have been disenfranchised that injustices and systemic inequities are perpetuated."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for convening today's very, very important and as you have noted, historic hearing."
"It is a complicated history of injustice and of sorrow, for both Indian tribes and African Americans."
"So what about any administrative authorities within the department to address some of the concerns that we have heard articulated today?"