I urge you to support the swift transition to clean energy and away from dirty fossil fuels that damage public health and our public lands.

I believe we all sitting in these seats and at this table are here because we want to be and that people believe in us to make that choice for them.

We would like to ask for additional funding to help us with that.

The Federal government must stop funding States to educate our youth according to State standards.

I want to thank you for the expanded Medicaid and Medicare. It has been an absolute help on our reservation.

There was mentioned before that, you know, soon we will be the ancestors, and are our future children going to say that our ancestors made the good choice for me like our ancestors made good choices for us to be here today.

We ask you to protect funding for the Department of Energy's Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program.

We want them to know who they are. We have lost enough of our children that way.

Great nations like great men should keep their word.

This cannot be the only place in America where Americans citizens who have, under treaty rights, been promised their healthcare do not have it available to them.

We are asking for a $95 million line item increase for the urban Indian health programs.

If one group of people on this planet knows how to stretch the dollar, it is us.

Our people are dying. People are dying in a manner that we can't control.

The funding has never been adequate and everybody knows that. It will never be adequate.

I wanted to let you know that the Urban Indian Health Institute is funded through IHS for just under $400,000 a year.

We have actually built out an MSW practicum program because we are treating these dips with parity.

We are not battling an opiate epidemic. We are battling a trauma epidemic.

What does this mean? When we talk about evidence-based practices and the practices that we are supposed to implement within our tribal clinics, the evidence that is gathered for these practices don't actually represent us.