We must work together, because ultimately the loss of salmon threatens your ways of life.
I have actually been challenged on this, on even having this field hearing here in Bethel.
I really hope that we could move forward with a just path and that the tribes are listened to and heard, and their opposition to this projec...
We need your support for funding these, I don't know if they are private companies.
We have sacrificed a lot on the Yukon, from salmon gear to fishing times, of the whole people on Yukon River.
I have a Tlingit name, Aan shaaw tk'i. I do not have a Yup'ik name.
The traditional harvesting culture in Alaska Native communities remains really strong.
Thank you for sharing in ways that are both informative and personal.
subsistence matters, our villages matter, salmon matters, and our way of life matters.
I do want to just note that there are no permanent protections for that co-stewardship.
I would like to thank U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski and the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for holding this Field Hearing
If we don't fish, we don't eat. It is pretty basic.
We need some answers. We need to be heard. We cannot accept this as a government formality for turning a deaf ear on the poor.
Allow them to have an opening to enable their communities to continue to teach this way of life.
Stop allowing the status quo so as to not affect industry harvest to the extent practicable in fisheries management.
This is not the time or the place to develop the world's largest open pit mine on the backs of the tribal nations of this region.
I am absolutely not dismissing changes to ANILCA or any other legislation here.
Let's have a demonstration project on co-management. Let's fund it.
