Today we took a giant step toward fulfilling that promise with Congressional approval of five major settlements for Indian country that are nothing short of historic.

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These people will be practitioners and stakeholders in the public and voluntary sectors, primarily, both within the Tweed and Dee river basins and further afield- often distributed across many small towns and smaller settlements in often remote parts of the country.

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It's especially evident in the places where the Puritans first landed and built their first settlements, where explorers traveled westward to fulfill the country's manifest destiny, and to purchase or take land by force.

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Yet in spite of the revelations, the resignations, and the multi-million dollar civil settlements that have forced the sale of Church assets across the country, no strong evidence has emerged that the abuse crisis has driven many from the faith.

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