"To begin, I want to thank the Chair for your leadership on this issue and your support for the Virginia tribes."
"This bill deals with tribes who encompass the best known stories of the interaction between those who settled this country from Europe and the Native populations who lived in this land when the settle..."
"There is no story that is better known about the interaction between the Europeans who came to this country and became Americans and the Indian tribes than the story of the Jamestown settlers, Pocahon..."
"Neither of these reasons should stand as a bar to recognition of these tribes."
"It should not be held against these tribes that they made peace with our people before there was an American government."
"The second reason is a more sinister reason."
"Virginia perpetrated this monstrous injustice for a very long time."
"I am here today because recognition of these Tribes by the Federal Government is long overdue."
"How can we commemorate their history and not recognize their existence? Now is the time to reconcile history."
"I commend the committee for giving its time and attention to the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act."
"It is time for these Virginia native peoples to be recognized by their own country."
"Congress has the power to recognize these Tribes. It has exercised this power in the past, and it should exercise this power again with respect to our Virginia Tribes."