On average, how long does this review take BIA to review an application? What are you looking at?

Another challenge, though, is the need for mobile processing trailers when you have communities that are not connected by road.

Great. Your testimony states that the bill would allow the tribes and tribal organizations to enter into 638 self-governance contracts to assume BIA bison herd management functions.

Is it the department's interpretation of S. 2908 that the bill will cover the cost of transporting the bulls, the cows and the calves to the villages that are working to establish these bison herds?

Good. And is it also your understanding that the bill would cover the cost of transporting the bison within Alaska from village to village to promote sustainable grazing practices and herd health?

Good. And is it also your understanding that the bill would cover the cost of transporting the bison within Alaska from village to village to promote sustainable grazing practices and herd health?

Another challenge, though, is the need for mobile processing trailers when you have communities that are not connected by road.

On average, how long does this review take BIA to review an application? What are you looking at?

Do you think that the way things are structured currently that we do have that flexibility, government programs by their very nature are not inherently built to be flexible?

What we are trying to do is, again, reestablish these herds for economic development as a traditional food source and provide food security for Native communities.

I appreciate today's hearing. You have covered much of the details of the bills that will be before us.

So, three years. I am looking then to Chair Bryan, and to Chairperson Mejia.

I appreciate today's hearing. You have covered much of the details of the bills that will be before us.

Do you think that the way things are structured currently that we do have that flexibility, government programs by their very nature are not inherently built to be flexible?

As I mentioned, these are expenses that are very real.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, thank you to those who have testified today.

On average, how long does this review take BIA to review an application?

What we are trying to do is, again, reestablish these herds for economic development as a traditional food source and provide food security for Native communities.

Do you think that the way things are structured currently that we do have that flexibility, government programs by their very nature are not inherently built to be flexible?

I want to discuss quickly S. 2908, the Indian Buffalo Management Act, this has impacts on my State.

It's either by water or by air.

Great. Your testimony states that the bill would allow the tribes and tribal organizations to enter into 638 self-governance contracts.

13 percent is NOT ACCEPTABLE. Congress has an absolute legal and moral duty to protect Us--and not at 13 percent.

I continue to hear from so many in my state, women in Alaska who are concerned about access to abortion.

We cannot continue to allow cartels to take advantage of the holes in our justice system and we cannot win this War on Drugs by ourselves.