Lisa Murkowski actually said...

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.

We must stand by the rights promised to Freedmen and the treaties that guaranteed those rights over a century ago.

I am interested in learning more about what these treaties entailed, and the obligations of both the tribes and the Federal Government to Fr...