03/09/2015
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"Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island met with the delegation."
"The Federal Government has made a commitment to enhance the tribes' ability to become self-reliant, to become self-governing, to develop our own economies."
"it is my understanding that a version of S. 439 was introduced in the 100 th Congress in response to a 1977 study by the American Indian Policy Review Commission that recommended the establishment of ..."
"the economic conditions that prevail all across Indian Country are still very extreme, extreme poverty and extremely limited opportunities."