Senator Murkowski, you will be called on to lead Alaskans in achieving this bold new consensus.

So let me ask on that, I want to get your input on this.

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.

Thank you for sharing in ways that are both informative and personal.

You have shown that we do matter.

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 are practicing cultural genocide from the Federal and the State government.

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

Discontinue using four-inch nets. They are killing my salmon out there.

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

It is my hope that these comments... will illuminate the crisis that has unfolded in our communities...

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

What good is the federal trust responsibility if the results in the loss of our fish, our communities, our culture, our lives?

It is so important that your connection to this resource be shared in a way that people from Washington, D.C. and other parts of the Country may not be able to quickly grasp.

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

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.

One of the key takeaways from that was the need for Native people to have a seat at the table, equal voice in management of subsistence resource.

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

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

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

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

We can never thank enough those who have stood to defend us and our Country's freedoms.

The traditional harvesting culture in Alaska Native communities remains really strong.

I absolutely hear and understand the fears that you have about the future of subsistence.