Byron Dorgan: “I believe 30-some drilling rigs now drilling active wells on the reservation. We've got a lot of stuff going on.”

It is a travesty! Further, it is a problem that will continue to have negative impacts for generations to come.

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

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.