Teresa Leger Fernández
45:45 - 46:13
“your testimony where you describe that your members of your tribe had not been able to visit the site for decades, yet this is the place of such cultural significance, a place where your ancestors must be buried”
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- Teresa Leger Fernández
- Timestamp
- 45:45 – 46:13
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From the transcript
And I also notice that the bill allows the— your tribe to be treated as other tribes on many and on many areas. And I think that that's important. We, we take that up a lot in this committee where Sometimes old settlements, they get interpreted in a way that is limiting. So I appreciate that. Ms. Obed, your testimony where you describe that your members of your tribe had not been able to visit the site for decades, yet this is the place of such cultural significance, a place where your ancestors must be buried, a place that might be of significance to people across the continent, you know, Athabascans are now live in New Mexico and throughout the Southwest.
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