Byron Dorgan: “I fully understand the sovereignty issue. I think perhaps more than most, I understand that.”

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 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.

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.