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On the recordMarch 7, 2022
Congress must formally acknowledge that the lands we now know as the United States are the ancestral homelands of millions of Indigenous Peoples, who were killed, removed, or relocated.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona
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Calls for acknowledgment of Indigenous Peoples' ancestral lands and historical injustices.

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