"The funding has never been adequate and everybody knows that. It will never be adequate."
"Our people are dying. People are dying in a manner that we can't control."
"If one group of people on this planet knows how to stretch the dollar, it is us."
"We are asking for a $95 million line item increase for the urban Indian health programs."
"This cannot be the only place in America where Americans citizens who have, under treaty rights, been promised their healthcare do not have it available to them."
"Great nations like great men should keep their word."
"We want them to know who they are. We have lost enough of our children that way."
"We ask you to protect funding for the Department of Energy's Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program."
"There was mentioned before that, you know, soon we will be the ancestors, and are our future children going to say that our ancestors made the good choice for me like our ancestors made good choices f..."
"I want to thank you for the expanded Medicaid and Medicare. It has been an absolute help on our reservation."
"The Federal government must stop funding States to educate our youth according to State standards."