NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “In the nearly 10 years that I have been honored to serve in the House, I have welcomed many constituents from Arizona to…”

“In the nearly 10 years that I have been honored to serve in the House, I have welcomed many constituents from Arizona to our Nation's capital, but one visit stands out in particular. It was in my first term. The gentleman visiting me was a Vietnam veteran. He was a White Mountain Apache, and he came to my office late in the day and he said, Congressman, I have seen all the monuments, I have seen so many statues, but where is the Indian? It was not a rhetorical question; but now, for that constituent, and Mr. Speaker, for all Americans, the rightful place of honor of the first Americans is realized. As my colleague from Michigan mentioned earlier, today we celebrate on our National Mall the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian. Mr. Speaker, I was honored when I first came to this House that nearly one out of every four of my constituents was Native American, and I think the challenge we can confront is that, though we may divide between political parties, there are really only two types of people who serve in the Congress of the United States, those who represent what we now call Indian Country and those who represent what was once Indian Country.”