Mr. President, I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on September 20, 2012, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:15 p.m., to conduct a business…

this Government needs to continue to adjust those changes as we move along in the best interests of the people.

Mr. President, as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, I am sponsoring a resolution, co-sponsored by Senators Barrasso, Inouye, Crapo, Johnson of South Dakota, Murkowski, Cantwell, Tester, Franken, and Udall of New Mexico…

The policy of banning Native language use in schools was adopted by the Territory of Hawaii.

The broad terms Indian and Tribes represented a diversity of people with unique cultures, languages and traditions indigenous to the United States.

I think sequestration itself would have a negative impact.

Overall, these policies of assimilation failed to meet the Federal trust responsibility to Native peoples.

All of us here in this room and the Committee staff, all will have to continue to educate our colleagues here in the Congress to know as much as they can about our indigenous people.

to me culture is like a tree. If you cut the tree from the roots, which is a culture, you know, there is a huge loss of something.

So, that is my question and you can feel free to expound on this because I have always felt that culture should be playing a huge part in what happens to the groups.

Mr. President, I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on September 20, 2012, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:15 p.m., to conduct a hearing…