Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Alaska Federation of NativesClear
0:51
Jaeleen Kookesh
“We had recently had Governor Dunleavy come to the Alaska Federation of Natives and asked them to take part in an appointment of members to a task force to amend the Constitution to bring Alaska in alignment with ANILCA. And he said, I want to bring this task force into fruition in 2 weeks.”Facebook video 1118570150823121 ·
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Jaeleen Kookesh
“they did finally address the importance of the traditional way of life for Alaska Native people, but they had trouble adopting an Alaska Native preference.”Facebook video 1118570150823121 ·
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Jaeleen Kookesh
“So there are some federal legislative options. I'm going to just run through them really quickly.”Facebook video 1118570150823121 ·
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Jaeleen Kookesh
“it extinguished our Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights. And it didn't specifically replace that with clear legal rights to our hunting and fishing.”Facebook video 1118570150823121 ·
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Jaeleen Kookesh
“We can repeal the ANCSA extinguishment clause. They didn't really replace it with something complete, right? They gave us a rural preference. They didn't really complete it, completely repay us for that extinguishment of our aboriginal title. We could amend ANILCA to provide an Alaska Native priority or a rural plus Native priority.”Facebook video 1118570150823121 ·
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Treg Taylor“I'd also support legislation that basically allows you to track your ballot so that make sure your ballot's being processed appropriately and that allows for a curing process, or at a minimum informing the voter that their ballot was tossed and for what reason”
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Jaeleen Kookesh
“We could amend the state constitution. It is complicated to have a dual management system. To think about whether you're on state land or private land or federal land, to make sure you have your GPS on to know whose property you're on. So maybe it might work if we worked with the state to have a state constitutional amendment.”Facebook video 1118570150823121 ·
0:44
Jaeleen Kookesh
“a couple years ago AFN did adopt a very comprehensive subsistence resolution, and I'm just looking to all of you and through these meetings we've been looking to all of the communities to give us guidance on narrowing down this resolution to prioritize Which options should we pursue going forward”Facebook video 1118570150823121 ·
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Dave Bronson“So structurally, to the structural question, Office of Tribal Affairs, I'll create an Office of Tribal Affairs within the governor's office. So sit in on the cabinet-level meetings so that when the decisions and the policies have to be made at the department level, there's someone there who is conversant in the issues.”
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Jaeleen Kookesh
“I will say that there were over 30 attempts to amend the state constitution to try to bring the state in alignment with ANILCA. None of them passed.”Facebook video 1118570150823121 ·
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Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins“I'll make sure that everybody supports subsistence and in And the governor's office and Department of Fish and Game leadership and the Department of Law and the next Attorney General for the state of Alaska will, as I said at the top, respect the Katie John decision and respect Title VIII of ANILCA and make sure that rural subsistence priority is upheld.”
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James Danly
“What I ask for everybody is that as the Department of Energy makes available these funding opportunities, that you really do avail yourself of the Office of Indian Energy and the Office of Arctic Energy, both of whom will help you and guide you to the best possible opportunities that we have at the Department of Energy.”Facebook video 1634061471462801 ·
0:37
James Danly
“we really do want to partner with you. The easiest way to do that is to go to the website for the Office of Indian Energy. The contact information is there. If you have an idea, and even if it doesn't fit within whatever funding is announced at the time, we are absolutely clear-eyed on the fact that as a department, we will get you where you need to go within the department.”Facebook video 1634061471462801 ·
0:25
James Danly
“This is the largest funding in the 20-year history of the Department of Indian Energy and the Department of Energy. It is— or the Office of Indian Energy. It is absolutely historic amount of investment that our department is making in tribal energy projects. This represents 63 different projects across the country. In 16 states, including Alaska.”Facebook video 1634061471462801 ·
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Lisa Murkowski“We're going to hear some encouraging news from the Department of Energy with regards to grants.”
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James Danly
“the reason I'm here in part in Anchorage to announce this, is that Alaska is receiving about half of the total award money to strengthen the energy system of Alaska.”Facebook video 1634061471462801 ·
0:09
James Danly
“Today I am announcing that we are issuing fundings for $125 million for tribal energy projects. $125 Million.”Facebook video 1634061471462801 ·
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Dan Sullivan“In December, they finally relented and we got an extension for 5 more years and my bill signed into law.”
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Michael Heyman
“Here's one where we had an individual distributing narcotics in the Skagway area that resulted in death of two individuals. These, what we call death resulting cases, are particularly egregious”Facebook video by Native Federation ·
0:25
Dan Sullivan“since day one, one of my first bills that I got passed into law was a brand new program for small disadvantaged communities in Alaska for water and sewer. And just a couple of months ago in the Water Resources Development Act, my bill got marked up as part of that bill. It's going to pass by the end of the year unanimously.”
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0:32
Michael Heyman
“within the last year and a half especially, it's been reinvigorated. There's been a number of tribal leaders, victim services, community leaders that have come together every couple of months, and what they've done is just within the last 2 weeks, they've put together over a 50-page report that talks about violence in our rural communities and how to use the Violence Against Women Act and special tribal criminal jurisdiction to address that issue.”Facebook video by Native Federation ·
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Michael Heyman
“we have one that's been pending for a couple of years right now. That involves 69, 69 defendants, 69 individuals who have been charged for trafficking fentanyl to rural community, to our rural communities. Several of them have already pled guilty.”Facebook video by Native Federation ·
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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 ·
0:52
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 ·
