If you are serious about talking about co-management, you have to look at getting more funding for it.

We especially thank you for your leadership to include language in the Fiscal Year 24 Appropriations Bill to reposition the Office of Subsistence Management to the Interior Secretary's Office.

It is time for a new path.

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

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

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

subsistence matters, our villages matter, salmon matters, and our way of life matters.

If we were able to manage the resource, if we have funding that was stable for a dedicated period of time...

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

Congress should support and invest in Alaska Native peoples to increase our capacity to protect our interests in the lands and waters.

We appreciate Senator Murkowski's work to assist AYK salmon populations through Congressionally-directed spending in support of research, monitoring, and co-management.

Our subsistence way of life must have unconditional Federal support, and the State of Alaska must show willingness to seek a different path forward other than litigation.

This is not a check the box. This is not something that I had to do. This is something that I want to do, because I hear you.

I would like to thank U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski and the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for holding this Field Hearing

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…

If we don't fish, we don't eat. It is pretty basic.

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

I have a Tlingit name, Aan shaaw tk'i. I do not have a Yup'ik name.