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On the recordMarch 7, 2022
Thank you, Chair Grijalva, and thank you to the witnesses and this whole discussion that we are having about the topic in terms of the roles and the importance of tribes actually participating and managing their own lands, which are also their aboriginal lands, which are also, in many cases, their sacred lands.
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democratic · New Mexico

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Leger Fernandez highlights the importance of tribal management of their lands.

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