Fourteen percent, about 14 percent of households in Indian Country don't have electricity.

Most Native communities in Alaska still are relying on diesel fuel and heating oil.

Thank you.

It's kind of embarrassing to think that a country like India is going to have an icebreaker in the water before we would.

Let's visit on that because I'd also like to talk to you about the potential for the Ukrainian people that have come to Alaska, many of whom have had prior experience within the seafood industry and are looking for those opportunities, but…

I would ask that our teams sit down and talk about this, because as we are talking about it, you have a deadline that is coming up with opportunities for grant funding that is going to make a difference to tribes.

But many of them are starting to feel like, is this a false promise? Is this a false promise here?

So you don't consider that outreach, do you?

We have a responsibility to support the sovereignty of tribal nations in energy development.

We are lagging and a commercially available icebreaker is just going to be a gap-filler.

Alaska is really the first line of defense for our nation up there.

For far too long, we hear about these programs, we hear about the funding that we have put, outlined in legislation, in law with specific, specific set-asides for tribal interests.