Elijah Crane actually said...

"I think it is a very, very important thing to be done. I hope we can help your people push this over the finish line, not only for your people, but I would love it if your grandmother got to see this ..."

"After more than a century-and-a-half of struggle, the Tribe does not have a reservation that is exclusively their own because of Congress' inaction to settle boundaries."

"I introduced the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribal Homelands Act because Congress should not stand in the way of self-governance for the sake of maintaining overburdensome oversight and legalism."

"The Southern Paiute people have shared territory with the Navajo for more than 160 years."