Byron Dorgan: “Reform proposals should support and strengthen our system.”

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

The fundamental problem found in the Dorgan report in 2010 and the findings now before the House is IHS, LEADERSHIP was failing then as it is failing now.

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

The agency promised changes, but the situation has only disintegrated since.