On the recordApril 19, 2024
Let me talk a little bit about the Voice of the Arctic Inupiat. It is a nonprofit organization established in 2015 by the North Slope region's collective elected Inupiat Native leadership. It is dedicated to preserving and advancing the North Slope, the Inupiat culture, and economic self-determination. It includes local governments, Alaska Native corporations, federally recognized Tribes, and Tribal nonprofits across that entire North Slope region. The board of directors of the Voice previously issued a strong resolution in opposition to the Biden administration's NPR-A rule that went into effect today, impacting their ancestral homelands. Just because it is really important, I want to give a sense of how many people. It is literally tens of thousands that the Biden administration is ignoring. The Voice of the Arctic Inupiat constitutes the following communities and organizations: Point Hope, Point Lay, Wainwright, Utqiagvik, Atqasuk, Anaktuvuk Pass, Nuiqsut, Kaktovik.…





