09/09/2010
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"I believe it is our job to go to our caucuses and tell them because we are the only ones that hear this testimony from Indian Country about our Native people."
"I have been raising alarm about the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School on the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota."
"It is drafty, it is cold and structurally it is not sound enough so that if the wind blows hard, they have to leave the school."
"The epidemic is very much tied to the poor housing, poor health care, the job situation and sense of hopelessness that the people get when they live in those conditions."