I believe we all sitting in these seats and at this table are here because we want to be and that people believe in us to make that choice for them.

I urge you to support the swift transition to clean energy and away from dirty fossil fuels that damage public health and our public lands.

The Federal government must stop funding States to educate our youth according to State standards.

The funding needs of American Indians and Alaskan Natives on reservations and in urban areas must be a priority to begin to work towards fully honoring the Federal government's unique government-to-government relationship and trust…

We are asking for a $95 million line item increase for the urban Indian health programs.

This cannot be the only place in America where Americans citizens who have, under treaty rights, been promised their healthcare do not have it available to them.

If one group of people on this planet knows how to stretch the dollar, it is us.

Great nations like great men should keep their word.

We want them to know who they are. We have lost enough of our children that way.

We ask you to protect funding for the Department of Energy's Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program.

There was mentioned before that, you know, soon we will be the ancestors, and are our future children going to say that our ancestors made the good choice for me like our ancestors made good choices for us to be here today.

I want to thank you for the expanded Medicaid and Medicare. It has been an absolute help on our reservation.

The DCP has to get across the finish line.

When Chevron tells us that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is right... I think the debate is over.

There is a terrific opportunity with the negotiations that come up next year to redo the 2007 interim shortage sharing guidelines.

We have actually built out an MSW practicum program because we are treating these dips with parity.

I wanted to let you know that the Urban Indian Health Institute is funded through IHS for just under $400,000 a year.

CO2 does, in fact, fertilize plants. But it causes a whole series of other problems.