Lisa Murkowski

Allow them to have an opening to enable their communities to continue to teach this way of life.

We appreciate your support for congressionally directed spending for AYK salmon populations and are grateful for your work on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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

We need immediate action to find solutions to this crisis. That won't happen unless the Federal Government is willing to listen to and partner with Tribes.

Our tribes matter. Subsistence matters. Our villages matter. Salmon matter. We cannot be ignored any longer.

I would like to thank Senator Murkowski, members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and your staff for organizing this field hearing to hear directly from our Tribes.

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

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

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

What do we do to replace wild food sources, like salmon, when they are in such states of collapse?

Our situation is dire, and it indicates we need a fundamental shift in our fishery management systems.

I would just really encourage Senator Lisa Murkowski and the Committee on Indian Affairs that you please govern us for the health and well-being of our people.

We need to be paying attention to that aspect of knowledge that you bring to the table.

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 need your support for funding these, I don't know if they are private companies.

I hope that our tribal leaders, the State and Federal Government will become a stronger advocate for recovery and wellness.

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

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.

Do it now, because you don't want Alaska to be the next devastating American dust bowl.

Stop allowing the status quo so as to not affect industry harvest to the extent practicable in fisheries management.

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

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

This is not the time or the place to develop the world's largest open pit mine on the backs of the tribal nations of this region.

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

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