Following that, and following discussions at the Standing Rock Reservation where I went and met just myself with a good number of high school students to talk to them about their lives, we put together some legislation to try to make mental health treatment and counseling more widely and readily available to young people on Indian reservations.
Dorgan discusses efforts to improve mental health services for youth on reservations.
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Obviously the future is education. We have a 50 percent high school dropout rate among Native American youth.
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 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.
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