03/21/2016
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"We will stand by the rights promised to Freedmen and the treaties that guaranteed those rights over a century ago."
"I want to thank again Senator Schatz for holding this important hearing and working with me on this issue."
"Today I am here to discuss an issue I care very deeply about, that has been ignored for far too long."
"The Freedmen were Black individuals who were enslaved by five formerly slave holding tribal nations."