Daniel Akaka: “I commend you and Senator Collins for your leadership in these areas, and I do personally appreciate it.”

The month of November provides Native peoples opportunity to educate by sharing their history and culture with a larger audience.

Well, thank you very much for that.

Thank you for all of your work in all of that.

We must also reaffirm and acknowledge the Department of Education's Federal trust responsibility for American Indian and Alaska Native students.