Byron Dorgan: “Let me just observe that the delay on funding for the Breckenridge project no longer exists, since I became chairman of…”

The problems facing American Indian and Alaska Native children are so significant that only concerted action by the Executive branch agencies and Congress would begin to address them.

Now, we need to change. We need to do it quickly and effectively.

This is not about politics; everyone on this dais knows that.

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