Byron Dorgan: “In North Dakota we've got 120 rigs drilling a new oil well every month and they never miss.”

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

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

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

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