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On the recordJuly 12, 2017
Despite the progress that the IRA accomplished, it still has returned less than 10 percent of the roughly 90 million acres that were taken from tribes.
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Norma Torres
Democratic · California

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Torres points out the limited success of the Indian Reorganization Act in returning tribal lands.

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