Congress needs to amend ANILCA to protect once and for all Alaska Native rural subsistence hunting and fishing rights and ensure our people's ability to co-manage these resources.

Ensure Congress, and all agencies within the federal government, within the Departments of Commerce, Agriculture, Interior, and State uphold their Federal Trust obligations to the federally recognized Tribes of all Alaska as mandated by…

We, the end users, the little people, the people that matter, have been silenced, we have been ignored.

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

Moving the Office of Subsistence Management under the Interior Secretary was, as I said, a step in the right direction.

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

I want you to look into that. That is coming from near and dear, from my heart.

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 also appreciate Senator Murkowski's support for greater Tribal representation on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.

We appreciate your support for greater Tribal representation on the NPFMC.

What good is the federal trust responsibility if the results in the loss of our fish, our communities, our culture, our lives?

I do want to just note that there are no permanent protections for that co-stewardship.

The impact of the historic salmon declines is profound on our communities.

I hope Senator, that we have an opportunity to do something about this, either by legislation or amending that treaty to have them all included.

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

short of legislation, what needs to happen, because legislation will take a long time, I know that, but I think even something as simple as crossing the lines, crossing parties and getting a compromise on this one issue

We want you to understand the importance of Tribal voices, Local & Traditional Knowledge and cooperative management in fishery management processes.

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