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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.

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

Thank you very much, Senator Lisa Murkowski, for being with us today on this historic day, as you said.

The way we are going, yes, we are going to see extinction of salmon within 10 years.

You have taken a huge step forward by moving the Office of Subsistence Management under the Secretary of Interior.

The way we are going, yes, we are going to see extinction of salmon within 10 years.

We have sacrificed a lot on the Yukon, from salmon gear to fishing times, of the whole people on Yukon River.

We have no choice but to be aware of every part and piece of the ecosystem, because everything is connected.

Let's have a demonstration project on co-management. Let's fund it.

Senator Murkowski, you will be called on to lead Alaskans in achieving this bold new consensus.

We have to be able to manage State waters, Federal waters, holistically.

Salmon are not just swimming dollar signs, Salmon are our life. They are in our DNA.

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

We urge you to push federal agencies to work with us to develop co-stewardship agreements for federally-managed lands and fisheries.

It is my hope that these comments... will illuminate the crisis that has unfolded in our communities...

So, one of the things that I often hear is that on Federal lands and waters, our subsistence resources and habitat are not being actively managed to ensure viable resource populations.

The Federal Government must act.