06/20/2017
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"the current land-into-trust process is paramount to achieving those goals."
"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."
"Throughout our Nation's history, tribes have suffered abuse and ongoing indignity at the hands of the Federal Government."
"the IRA's goal was to, and I quote, "rehabilitate the Indians' economic life, and to give him a chance to develop the initiative destroyed by a century of oppression and paternalism.""