I absolutely believe that it is important that we have unions.

Our goal today is to listen and to learn from you as Native leaders.

We are looking for lessons learned. We are looking for an identification of those continuing barriers that prohibit tribes or organizations to move forward.

I think this was a good overview of these areas that are so important, everything from education to economy to what is happening with agriculture.

I think by making the BIA be more transparent with tribes, homebuyers and lenders about where they are in the process will be a help as well, as transparency always increases accountability.

This Committee made historic bipartisan progress over the last two years to advance Federal support for Native communities.

we want to acknowledge and thank you for reintroducing legislation last month to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act.

I think we need to have a category of stories where you can submit to the Committee the 'you have to be kidding me' stories.

Certainly things like being able to submit compliance reports by utilizing mail rather than online, which we know in far too many of our Alaska Native communities, and in so many parts of Indian Country, broadband is still not where we…

I would like to thank the Members for their work and leadership on this legislation.

I really appreciated your comments, Mr. Baker, and especially your comments in regard to improving weather cams and weather stations in Alaska.

We are looking for lessons learned. We are looking for an identification of those continuing barriers that prohibit tribes or organizations to move forward.

We need to be paying attention to that.

We need to be paying attention to that.

we want to acknowledge and thank you for reintroducing legislation last month to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act.

You noted the priority for making consortium applications eligible. I think you have hit on something that is really key to us in recognizing that AFN and other tribal consortia make use of economies of scale to ensure that some of the…

This Committee made historic bipartisan progress over the last two years to advance Federal support for Native communities.

I think by making the BIA be more transparent with tribes, homebuyers and lenders about where they are in the process will be a help as well, as transparency always increases accountability.