Tribes have been on this continent for millennia, for tens of thousands of years, and they know how to take care of our land.

If you recall when I first came into Congress, shortly before I was sworn in, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights came out with the Broken Promises report and pretty much laid that out over decades and decades that tribes have been…

Thank you for the opportunity to be here today and offer this testimony, and I look forward to our continued partnership, and I look forward to the conversation that we are going to have today.

It is important for me to make sure that people know we care about this issue.

I understand the issue. I understand what tribes are saying, and I respect tribal laws.

the funding for tribal courts is so extremely important when you are dealing with, you know, holistic, wraparound approaches

So I would like you to talk a little more about how living up to our trust and treaty responsibilities by treating these as mandatory will not only help right wrongs in Indian Country but will also help engage all the important work that…

We are incredibly grateful for the $7 million in the 2022 funding.

I believe very strongly that stakeholders deserve to be heard.

Generally, if tribes don't have to worry about certain parts of their budgets, then they are free to work on things that they know will help their communities.

I said many times that our public lands belong to every single American, and so we felt the need to include significant reforms that would benefit taxpayers.

We are talking about literally relocating entire communities.