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 for us to be here today.

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.

We would like to ask for additional funding to help us with that.

I urge you to support the swift transition to clean energy and away from dirty fossil fuels that damage public health and our public lands.

The funding needs of American Indians and Alaskan Natives on reservations and in urban areas must be a priority to begin to work towards fully honoring the Federal government's unique government-to-government relationship and trust responsibility to Indian tribes.

The underfunding of tribal law enforcement and justice systems directly contributes to Native Americans experiencing one of the Nation's highest rates of crime and victimization in the United States.

The Indian healthcare delivery system still spends only 40 percent of the national average per patient.