We appreciate the immediate one-year pause in new fossil fuel leasing.

Any departure from this policy flies in the face of established political and societal norms and violates our civil and human rights.

In FY2020 Congress appropriated $50 million dollars towards the Defense Community Infrastructure Program.

These are sacred homelands and resources for Native Americans, who have been on this land long before this was ever a country.

Their ancestors are buried there. And I hope you understand that as well, that when you have people buried, it becomes hallowed ground.

I feel that we need to actually hear from the Tribes here, or have their report in the record.

Fox Peak is a highly sacred site to the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe, and the BLM has identified this area as a special Area of Critical Environmental Concern.

You understand that we are on Indian land right now, and every single inch of this country was Indian land long before it was ever the United States of America.

It is just concerning to me that the Navy could craft their end-product proposal, having it essentially ready to come up here, and then call a few conversations with Tribal leaders 'consultation.' That is not consultation. It is not just a…

And the idea that this land that is hallowed ground could be used for this type of training, it is really sacrilegious, in a way, to the people whose lives you will affect.

Consultation and community engagement has to come first, especially when sacred lands are involved.

It is almost like Tribes are an afterthought, when they should be a forethought.