Senator Murkowski, you will be called on to lead Alaskans in achieving this bold new consensus.
Failure to do so will be a death blow to my river, to my people, and our survival, before we go extinct.
We must work together, because ultimately the loss of salmon threatens your ways of life.
Moving the Office of Subsistence Management under the Interior Secretary was, as I said, a step in the right direction.
The way we are going, yes, we are going to see extinction of salmon within 10 years.
We need your support for funding these, I don't know if they are private companies.
The impact of the historic salmon declines is profound on our communities.
Our subsistence way of life must have unconditional Federal support, and the State of Alaska must show willingness to se...
We have sacrificed a lot on the Yukon, from salmon gear to fishing times, of the whole people on Yukon River.
Our tribes matter. Subsistence matters. Our villages matter. Salmon matter. We cannot be ignored any longer.
I have a Tlingit name, Aan shaaw tk'i. I do not have a Yup'ik name.