Byron Dorgan: “I don't understand what the metrics are by which one makes that decision.”

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

I know the word 'privatization' has been used. I did not use it.

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

We have to shine all the spotlights on one spot and figure out not only what is happening, but how on earth do we fix it.