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

We bear the brunt of the conservation. We, the end users, the little people, the people that matter, have been silenced, we have been ignored, we have been marginalized by the very government that is here to protect our interests as…

The Federal Government must act.

I wish they would close that Area M for five years, and we would see the truth in five years.

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

If we have funding that was stable for a dedicated period of time that we knew was available to us, and we could work across regions to really further co-management, that is what I would recommend.

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

To the rest of the Country, we are located on the edge of the map.

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

we talked about fentanyl. There is a significant increase, significant provision in the supplement to combat fentanyl.

Senators Cantwell and Mullin introduced S. 2695, the 'Parity for Tribal Law Enforcement Act.'

They are targeting these small, remote, rural, vulnerable communities. It is the worst predation there can possibly be.

Tribal leaders and federal partners must work together to protect our Tribal communities with effective and well-funded policy solutions to address the opioid crisis.

we know that Native Americans, Alaska Natives as a population demographically are dying in the past two years of drug overdoses more than any other populations out there.

we talked about fentanyl. There is a significant increase, significant provision in the supplement to combat fentanyl.

we will not be able to get the support that we need for Israel, for Ukraine, for the Indo-Pacific, for the disasters, unless there is true, meaningful border security as part of this supplemental.

we have a challenge that is so big and so enormous.

Legislative solutions are needed to address the targeting that Tribes are experiencing.

It speaks to the lack of resources for education, for treatment, for preventive services and public safety in Alaska Native communities.

I strongly support improving and keeping tele-health opportunities as available as possible.

we have to be doing more when it comes to treatment.

I heard you say multiple times here this morning that comprehensive reform is needed. I think we would all agree that comprehensive reform is needed.

the lethality of which is almost incomprehensible for most people.

To assume that we are so is naive and ill-informed, ill-placed.

It speaks to the lack of resources for education, for treatment, for preventive services and public safety in Alaska Native communities.