Fawn Sharp: “Good domestic policy will recognize and embrace our long and traditional histories, our cultures, our values that are…”

I look forward to working with members of this Committee and other members of Congress to identify climate adaptation strategies that incorporate traditional ecological knowledge and respect tribal sovereignty and self-determination.

A last recommendation that we would like to offer is for Congress to appropriate $12 million to allow capacity building for indigenous peoples to participate in international conferences worldwide.

We believe that implementing standards for the UN Declaration means that the United States no longer has the permission nor the power to unilaterally make decisions that affects our lands, our people and our resources.

It is critically important that Congress consider not only supporting and honoring our treaty and trust responsibility, but the economic agenda that tribal nations see for providing the resources that we should be doing as an attribute of…