Video Clips

Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Michael Heyman

“even just within the last few months, we've gotten authorization based on Attorney General Todd Blanchard's visit to hire a tribal justice prosecutor, and that person we are in the process of hiring right now. The idea and intent is for that person to be exclusively focused on bringing cases that arise out of our rural communities, violent crime cases.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Michael Heyman

“He had sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered those women. And he was held accountable on the state side, but I felt it was important on the federal side to not just directly attack this issue, but even indirectly attack this issue with every federal charge possible to ensure that a monster like this man never returns to any of our communities.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “this vital program is going to expire at the end of the year. I need your help. I have a law to extend it for 5 more years, but it's being blocked. I'm going to go down the Senate floor every day until they fix this.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “Any out-of-towners from California, New Jersey, or Hawaii, you are now free to go down to the craft store and buy as much ivory as you want. Nobody in California is going to put you in jail for that.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “This award provides roughly $1.4 billion over 5 years for Alaska healthcare innovation.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “I've introduced legislation to open approximately 4 million additional acres for land selections for our Vietnam veterans in Southeast and on the North Slope, and we're going to get that done too.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Michael Heyman

“a guilty verdict was issued in the federal court with respect to an individual named Brian Smith. This individual was convicted on falsifying documents and lying in connection with the U.S. citizenship application. And so, He will be sentenced in February of next year”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Ingrid Goodyear

“what we got out of this case is just the importance of every individual, particularly every individual in this room, every individual online, every individual in our population.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “we got a quarter of a billion dollars directed to running water and flush toilets in Alaska communities in that bill. Quarter of a billion.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “this bill was already marked up in the Armed Services Committee, unanimously passed. Every Democrat, every Republican voted for it. The U.S. Army is on board, the National Guard is on board, and with your help, we're going to get this done this year for communities in Alaska that want a National Guard unit and armory back.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “We need to revitalize the Alaska National Guard in rural Alaska, and that's exactly what my bill, the Alaska National Guard Rural Community Revival Act, will do.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “Last year, working with many of you, I led the effort to pass legislation creating a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund. That is the largest investment in American history in rural healthcare in America, and Alaska got the biggest award of any state in the country on this.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Michael Heyman

“Some of those individuals have distributed and resulted in death. And what they've done is they've trafficked these fentanyl pills by the tens of thousands. All right, let's get our head around that. Tens of thousands of pills out to our rural communities, primarily through the mail system.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Nick Begich “This year we delivered a significant victory with the signing of the Alaska's Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition Act, or the ARTIST Act. I was proud to champion this legislation in the House, working along Senator Dan Sullivan, who led the effort in the Senate.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Michael Heyman

“Under federal law, we have a 20-year mandatory minimum sentence if you are convicted of distributing drugs that result in the overdose or overdose death of someone.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “after a decade of fighting, pushing, holding hearings here at AFN, we finally got my artist act signed into law this year that preempts state laws that target beautiful Alaska Native ivory and crafts.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026