Fawn Sharp: “We can't take selective science to advance political objectives that benefit multinational corporations.”

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.

We have to return to our traditional life ways that the indigenous peoples of this continent have exercised for millennia.

Tribal nations should have a decisive say, through free prior and informed consent, on all Federal actions.

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…