What good is the federal trust responsibility if the results in the loss of our fish, our communities, our culture, our lives?
Thank you, Mr. Winkelman.
I would like to thank U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski and the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for holding this Field Hearing
Thank you for that.
Today, we want you to understand the importance of Tribal voices, Local & Traditional Knowledge and cooperative management in fishery manage...
There are no permanent protections for that co-stewardship.
Traditional ecological knowledge must inform our actions and decisions.
If we have funding that was stable for a dedicated period of time that we knew was available to us, and we could work across regions to real...
I feel this is historic in many ways, to actually be able to bring the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to Bethel.
We must work together, because ultimately the loss of salmon threatens your ways of life.
We especially thank you for your leadership to include language in the Fiscal Year 24 Appropriations Bill.
Senator Murkowski, you will be called on to lead Alaskans in achieving this bold new consensus.
Our subsistence way of life must have unconditional Federal support, and the State of Alaska must show willingness to seek a different path ...
When you rely on salmon for your food source, it is not just because it is what is on sale. It is because it is what you have.
I do not have that magic button that can put fish back in the river now.
We have to be able to manage State waters, Federal waters, holistically.
I want you to look into that. That is coming from near and dear, from my heart.
the lethality of which is almost incomprehensible for most people.
