Culture is the ability to sustain life, to hand down to your children, to your grandchildren, to your great grandchildren.

Since the passage of the land exchange, Chairman Grijalva has introduced legislation (H.R. 665 in this Congress) that would repeal Section 3003, for which we are very grateful.

Too much is at stake to approve this project without fully understanding the impacts of it.

the consequences of that, short-term, you talked about. We don't know when, but it will become a problem.

we have bent the rules, changed the criteria and, basically, jeopardized economic development, water usage, and communities nearby.

I am both deeply saddened and angered at the same time that some of the members of this Subcommittee would not take the time to come and hear your story, to understand what is at stake and why this is so important for the San Carlos Tribe…

I think those areas, if anything else, need to be strengthened going forward.

The only way forward, if we are to survive as a Nation, as a society, and as a world, is to respect the rights of all people.

Arizona, like the other states, are going to have to have some permanence to water usage, conservation, etc.

It was a parliamentary maneuver done in the dark, violating the process and the spirit of how we seek to pass legislation for all people.

This is a total desecration of religious rights. This is an insult to what is truly sacred to people.

There was no transparency. There was no honesty. There was no process.