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We are treated as colonists on our own lands and are subject to federal approvals for almost everything we need.

My community unapologetically supports the leasing program.

Thank you, Chairman Stauber and Representative Peltola for your continued support and advocacy on behalf the North Slope Inupiat.

This legislation would reverse this administration's sweeping September 6 announcements that restrict development on 13 million acres in NPR-A and reinstate resource development leases in the ANWR.

H.R. 6285 addresses both land rights and usage on the North Slope, both of which are essential to the self-determination of the Indigenous communities.

I am grateful to Chairman Stauber and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola for introducing H.R. 6285.

Thank you Representative Stauber for putting forward this bill, and I would encourage all members of the committee to pay careful attention to the testimony of my friends from Alaska's Arctic.

This dereliction of duty and disregard for the rule of law cannot continue.

This is our right and it implements the intent of ANCSA! This is our destiny and our economic freedoms that were promised by Congress.

What investor in their right mind would even consider spending millions of dollars in ANWR?

The Federal Government should not prioritize the media over the voices of Alaska Native communities who will be directly affected by its policies.

We see the Biden Administration utilizing every bureaucratic devise at its disposal in its quixotic quest to forestall natural resource development across Alaska to appease the powerful environmental lobby.

Congress authorized the leasing and development program within the 1002 Area of ANWR not on a whim, but after decades of robust debate.

We see the Biden administration utilizing every bureaucratic device at its disposal in its quixotic quest to forestall natural resource development across Alaska.

I come before you today to plead on behalf of all Alaskans for relief from the inimical policies imposed by the current Administration.

Put simply, Alaska is a resource state. And without the ability to responsibly monetize its rich endowment of resources, Alaska economy will decline and its citizens will suffer.

The Biden Administration's relentless assault on Alaska that is unquestionably contrary to existing federal law and the national and energy security of the United States.

We have learned firsthand that resource development and protection of the environment are not mutually exclusive goals.