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Norman D. Dicks: Is the gentleman saying we cannot take care of all the self-determination tribes? In other words, the problem is we have…

On the recordJuly 22, 1998
Is the gentleman saying we cannot take care of all the self-determination tribes? In other words, the problem is we have got so many people who signed up to do self-determination, that we cannot take care of all of them? Is that the problem?
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Norman D. Dicks

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Questioning the chairman about the challenges of supporting self-determination tribes.

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