Byron Dorgan: “These issues are vital to the long-term development of tribes as self-sufficient governments.”

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

I just want to say that I am concerned about the court's decision in Carcieri and the impact it may have on those tribes that were recognized after 1934.

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.

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