We especially thank you for your leadership to include language in the Fiscal Year 24 Appropriations Bill to reposition the Office of Subsistence Management to the Interior Secretary's Office.

I feel this is historic in many ways, to actually be able to bring the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to Bethel

We can never thank enough those who have stood to defend us and our Country's freedoms.

So let me ask on that, I want to get your input on this.

Our subsistence way of life must have unconditional Federal support, and the State of Alaska must show willingness to seek a different path forward other than litigation.

the need for the Federal Government to pay attention, to pay attention, to listen, to understand, and to act.

It is time for a new path.

Our tribes matter. Subsistence matters. Our villages matter. Salmon matter. We cannot be ignored any longer.

I am absolutely not dismissing changes to ANILCA or any other legislation here.

You have shown that we do matter.

We are practicing cultural genocide from the Federal and the State government.

We just had a hearing in the Indian Affairs Committee on the fentanyl crisis among Alaska Native peoples.

Help me end suicide. Help me protect our Native rights. Help me restore our resources for future generations. And most of all, help me save Alaska.

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.

it seems to me that the Yukon is in a humanitarian crisis.

It is time for a change.

Failure to do so will be a death blow to my river, to my people, and our survival, before we go extinct.

The Federal Government must act.