NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Mr. Speaker, I think for too long, in too many ways, the first Americans have become the forgotten Americans. It was my…”

“Mr. Speaker, I think for too long, in too many ways, the first Americans have become the forgotten Americans. It was my privilege early in my time in Congress to welcome a member of the San Carlos Apache tribe to my district. He was a proud veteran of Vietnam. He talked about coming to Washington and seeing the different monuments, retracing the names of those with whom he served in Vietnam who paid the ultimate price, visiting the Mall and seeing the grand memorials to so many different figures in American history. Yet that afternoon when he came to my office, he was troubled because he said to me, 'Congressman, where's the Indian?'. His point was the first Americans have played a vital role in our Nation.”