This policy and any policy that is truly focused on EJ, we will continue fighting for it.

Our communities must be at the table in making decisions that affect their quality of life, their health, and their futures.

I very much look forward to working with this Committee and my colleagues to get the Violence Against Women Act passed in the Senate.

I join you, the Navajo and the Pueblo leaders, in striving to find the important balance.

Our Tribes and Pueblos are working to address the impacts of climate change, to maintain and revitalize our traditional agricultural practices, to restore and to repatriate sacred lands and traditional lands.

What are the changes you think could make it easier for organizations and communities to apply and manage those grants?

Each case number represents a life and a story and a tear in the fabric of our communities.

one of the most important recommendations that came out of that work was about data and cross-jurisdictional sharing of data.

I think it is really crucial that we acknowledge the history of the United States and its policies, and how that has disproportionately impacted our communities of color and, in particular, our Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other communities that have been affected by the historical policies of this country.

I led the inclusion of additional funding in the House-passed appropriations bill for cultural studies.

I really appreciated the meeting that we had here in my office last week.