Ed Case: “I urge this committee, number one, to appropriate the necessary funding and to carry out that Act and support related…”

Native Hawaiians teach that our forests are essential to all life and embrace a deep sense of responsibility to sustain and protect all that is the wao nahele.

The more you're here, the more influence you have, the more relationships you have, the more know-how you have, the more experience you have to get things done — as I did in three crises in a row.

I strongly urge my colleagues to join with me in passing and enacting the Indigenous Diplomacy and Engagement Act.

We can no longer expect our service members to project 21st-century power from 20th-century infrastructure.