Byron Dorgan: “We need to ensure that Indian tribes have the same opportunities as other entities to develop energy resources.”

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.

Obviously the future is education. We have a 50 percent high school dropout rate among Native American youth.

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

You know, I do not know that I can offer you much advice except to say we have painted ourselves into a fiscal policy corner.