Byron Dorgan: “It is simply unrealistic to expect producers to recover from the losses they have endured without any real…”

Senator Dorgan once said it takes four agencies and 49 steps. I think with the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, we say it is seven agencies and 100 steps.

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.

They need our help because we are the ones who made the promise and we are the ones not keeping it.

The problems facing American Indian and Alaska Native children are so significant that only concerted action by the Executive branch agencies and Congress would begin to address them.