Dan Boren: “This budget should strengthen the programs that allow tribal nations to act in their own best interests.”

I want to commend you both for coming together and sponsoring a single bill to provide for the distribution of these funds.

At 9:02 a.m. on the morning of April 19th, 1995, a truck bomb detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City killing 168 individuals--all of them unsuspecting women, children, and men--thereby becoming…

Overall, this is a good start. We must, however, maintain focus upon sovereignty and economic development so that our Indian communities can continue to grow and to govern.

The Tohono O'odham Nation has broken the compact into which it entered, thereby rendering the proposed casino in violation of the 1988 law.