We must stand by the rights promised to Freedmen and the treaties that guaranteed those rights over a century ago.
It is a complicated history of injustice and of sorrow, for both Indian tribes and African Americans.
Let me ask yet probably another hard question, and that is a recognition that as sovereign parties to treaties, tribes c...
Tribal self-governance is the best path forward to resolving internal tribal conflicts. We encourage other tribes to tak...
But that can be, I think, the best way to resolve those is within the tribe and through the nation-to-nation relationshi...
Both sovereigns who are party to a treaty have a responsibility to fulfill the terms of the treaty, and also have a righ...
So what about any administrative authorities within the department to address some of the concerns that we have heard ar...
I am interested in learning more about what these treaties entailed, and the obligations of both the tribes and the Fede...
I want to again thank Senator Schatz for holding this important hearing and working with me on this issue.
It is when we don't expand our table to hear more from those who have been disenfranchised that injustices and systemic ...
S. 4439 would transfer administrative jurisdiction of approximately 1,031 acres of National Forest System land.