Fawn Sharp: “We urge the committee to appropriate funds to help Tribes prepare to respond to climate change.”

Tribal nations are on the front lines of climate change.

Adaptation funding is simply not enough. And we need additional resources to begin to not only adapt with new and emerging science...

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.

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