I have worked on FEMA disasters with tribes and other communities in New Mexico, and we know that our most vulnerable, who suffer most from disasters, also have the fewest resources to rebuild in a green and resilient manner.
Emphasizing the need for support for vulnerable communities in disaster recovery.
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But legislation that addresses lands, like the Wounded Knee legislation, for example, I think it is important...
What we are actually doing is making this problem worse, rather than solving it, so that we could then have some political theater around it.
What do we need in Indian Country to make sure that we provide economic opportunity, that we grow the middle class in Indian Country, which is needed more than perhaps elsewhere because we have been underserved, under-sourced for too long.
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