Thank you for being here and the way that you invest in your tribe.

It's a very difficult process to launch a business in America.

Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call to order this field hearing of this Senate Indian of Affairs Committee.

There's still a lot of work to be done to ensure Native American children grow up with the same opportunities as every American child.

This is a very important conversation.

Our tribes are a model for tribes around the country on economic development, education, health care, and countless other areas.

If it's not possible to do that--if a business or a home or whatever it may be, is still locked into that system, you can't build a growing sense of wealth.

I am pleased that this Committee is elevating the issue of economic success in Indian Country.

If we really as a country wanted to make a commitment to Native American entrepreneurs, we could do that through doing that same type of program.

What can the Federal government do away with to help tribes in their economic development?

Oklahoma tribes have been incredibly successful on the whole and there are many things that can be shared with other tribes.

What have you seen, as far as the success rate in the 8(a) programs, as far as, at the end of that 9 years; by your 10, 11, 12, that business still exists?

You have spent a great deal of your time serving, so thanks for doing that.

From an economic development point of view, what can tribes do to become more economically diverse?

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