Byron Dorgan: “I want to state at the start of this hearing my strong support for Mr. Echo Hawk's nomination.”

Senator Byron Dorgan's 68-page Report of 2010 addressing the critical conditions of all the Great Plain's Regional IHS was brought to the attention of McSwain.

I know that everyone sitting at this table has a passionate desire to fix these problems.

What you and members of this Committee can do and will do by putting the spotlight on this spot will save lives.

Tribes ceded close to 200 million acres of land during the treaty-making and removal periods prior to 1881.