This means that we are being heard. We, of course, support your bill.

This dereliction of duty and disregard for the rule of law cannot continue.

Thank you, Chairman Stauber and Representative Peltola for your continued support and advocacy on behalf the North Slope Inupiat.

I would love to hear from each of you on how we can do a better job, as Alaskans, making sure that industry, Native people, and environmental folks can collaborate and work together.

I think that this Administration has shown Alaskans some deference in terms of Willow, the largest oil project that our state, our nation has seen in decades.

we are treated as colonists on our own lands and are subject to federal approvals for almost everything we need.

We do not approve of these efforts to turn our homeland into one giant national park, which literally guarantees us a fate with no economy, no jobs, reduced subsistence, and no hope for the future of our people.

I am grateful to Chairman Stauber and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola for introducing H.R. 6285.

we are an 'inconvenient truth' because we are here, and we will not give up on our rights as Indigenous people.

The Federal Government should not prioritize the media over the voices of Alaska Native communities who will be directly affected by its policies.

We are good stewards of our lands and resources, and we have been for millennia.

The issue and goal of this Administration seems to be to erase us from the landscape!

This is our right and it implements the intent of ANCSA! This is our destiny and our economic freedoms that were promised by Congress.

H.R. 6285 addresses both land rights and usage on the North Slope, both of which are essential to the self-determination of the Indigenous communities.

We see the Biden Administration utilizing every bureaucratic devise at its disposal in its quixotic quest to forestall natural resource development across Alaska to appease the powerful environmental lobby.

the Biden Administration's relentless assault on Alaska that is unquestionably contrary to existing federal law and the national and energy security of the United States.

Thank you Representative Stauber for putting forward this bill, and I would encourage all members of the committee to pay careful attention to the testimony of my friends from Alaska's Arctic.

Put simply, Alaska is a resource state. And without the ability to responsibly monetize its rich endowment of resources, Alaska economy will decline and its citizens will suffer.