If that is not the most racist statute that I have ever heard.

I think our first national policy was to kill the Indians, get rid of them.

I do want to associate myself with the statements that have been made earlier by Governor Kaine and our colleague, Congressman Moran, in full support of the proposed legislation to recognize the tribes from the State of Virginia.

If you want to talk about history, the 1956 Act definitely did recognize the Lumbee Indians as a Federally recognized tribe, but guess the reason why Congress did not give full recognition?

Tremendous injustice has been done against the Lumbee Indians. I think 110 years is long enough for any tribe to live in maligned, even streaks of racism, and the history that they have tried earnestly to seek recognition.

Congress punted. In its primary responsibility to give recognition to the tribes, by implied consent, it never bothered to do anything.

Don't even recognize them and their given character and ethnic recognition, so assimilation was the next national policy that we had in mind.

Then the next national policy that we tried to propound or even promote, assimilate the Indians.

I sincerely hope that the flagpole goes up to Secretary Salazar and to the White House that the same consideration ought to be given to what has happened to the six tribes from Virginia.

If these Indian tribes in Virginia had to go through the seven criteria of the Federal acknowledgement process they would have failed miserably.

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