Fawn Sharp: “We will be seeking to increase prevention efforts, increase treatment and then also provide enhanced enforcement.”

A last recommendation that we would like to offer is for Congress to appropriate $12 million to allow capacity building for indigenous peoples to participate in international conferences worldwide.

We have an effective death sentence right now facing this pandemic.

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

I look forward to working with members of this Committee and other members of Congress to identify climate adaptation strategies that incorporate traditional ecological knowledge and respect tribal sovereignty and self-determination.