I want to again thank Senator Schatz for holding this important hearing and working with me on this issue.
We have a responsibility to uphold the agreements made with our tribes.
We must stand by the rights promised to Freedmen and the treaties that guaranteed those rights over a century ago.
It is when we don't expand our table to hear more from those who have been disenfranchised that injustices and systemic ...
Let me ask yet probably another hard question, and that is a recognition that as sovereign parties to treaties, tribes c...
I am interested in learning more about what these treaties entailed, and the obligations of both the tribes and the Fede...
I do think it would be prudent... that the Committee also receive testimony from the Forest Service.
This legislation is directing the Chief of the Forest Service and the tribe to enter into an MOU to protect and enhance ...
It has been mentioned that Interior, well, along with the rest of the government, has of course a trust responsibility t...
I think it is important to recognize that this settlement is a decade in the making.
S. 4439 would transfer administrative jurisdiction of approximately 1,031 acres of National Forest System land.