Fawn Sharp: “Adaptation funding is simply not enough. And we need additional resources to begin to not only adapt with new and…”

It is necessary to re-engage and honor the relationship that the United States has with the Tribal Nations going forward if we are going to continue to work through this issue in a way that ensures the trust responsibility is upheld.

I am pleased to present testimony to the Committee on the success of the 2013 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the critical need to reauthorize VAWA with strong tribal provisions now.

It is critically important that Congress consider not only supporting and honoring our treaty and trust responsibility, but the economic agenda that tribal nations see for providing the resources that we should be doing as an attribute of…

We have to return to our traditional life ways that the indigenous peoples of this continent have exercised for millennia.