Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Abigail Echo-Hawk
“our report that was released this morning, Sacred Responsibility: Protecting Our People, details the 201 organizations that we did that survey with. And for folks, it's created incredible uncertainty. And in fact, for those who had grants eliminated and then they were reinstated, they didn't even rehire because they're so afraid their grants are going to go away anyways.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
David Mittelman
“in a retrospective study that we did, we found that almost 25% of the time, just identifying the person almost immediately tells you who is responsible, and it's led to the identification and prosecution of those responsible.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Grace Bulltail
“the primary MMU agent that we know to be working on Kaysera's case had been assigned to other duties, including the BIA Chief of Police, then eventually resigned from the MMU and has now returned to the BIA role.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Charles Addington
“In May, Secretary Burgum signed Secretary Order 3450 establishing the Indian Country Violent Crime Task Force and implementing additional public safety enhancements, including refocusing the Missing and Murdered Unit on its, on its core investigative responsibilities.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Charles Addington
“We, we can always do better. It's, it's always— I don't think anyone could ever say it— any public safety program that I've worked with in my many years, that we could always do better in, in what we're doing.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Charles Addington
“we've just hired a brand new division chief for the Missing and Murdered Unit that's got a different vision for the program. She— Sabrina Desatell, she's sitting here in the audience, and we just selected her. She's coming from Washington State. She's an assistant special agent in charge with us right now, and she also comes with a tribal background, being a public safety director for the Colville Tribe.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Grace Bulltail
“For 10 months now, we have been asking the MMU to schedule a half-hour phone call with our family to discuss their progress on Kaysera's case. The response we got was that they do not have time to talk to us.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
David Mittelman
“I think perhaps the biggest issue is that I'm not clear that tribes truly understand the resources that are now available. As it was mentioned, this program began in 2025. And most of the tribal agencies are not aware that we have tools such as the DNA technology we offer to work these cases.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Abigail Echo-Hawk
“43% of the folks who we surveyed were having a very difficult time retrain— retaining law enforcement officers. Those officers are so good, as what was told, they're phenomenal. And because we don't have the appropriate resources that that could be addressed in the Tribal Law Enforcement Parity Act in addition to the Badges Act.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Charles Addington
“in the past, there's maybe the difference in how they, they prioritize maybe some of the work that the Missing and Murdered Unit's been doing. I think, you know, they've kind of worked on other things like predatory crimes and some different things, and we've started as part of this Secretarial Order, a Predatory Crime Unit specifically to work on those cases. So that takes that ability away from the Missing and Murdered Agents and puts it in its own unit.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Jared Huffman
“earlier this year, the committee heard testimony that OJS remains severely understaffed, and this leaves families waiting sometimes months to receive responses from the Missing and Murdered Unit, the MMU. So Director Attington, do you believe that allowing families to wait months for any contact from the MMU is appropriate or acceptable?”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Grace Bulltail
“On August 24, 2019, my niece Kaisarah Stoppes Pretty Places was murdered just days after her 18th birthday. I served on the Not Invisible Act Commission as a family member.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Begich): Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country” · Jul 14, 2026
Lisa Murkowski
“S. 630, the Quapaw Tribal Settlement act, sponsored by our former colleague, Mark Wayne Mullen, would implement a $137.5 million U.S. court of Claims recommended settlement between the United States and the Quapaw Nation.”Senate Indian Affairs (Murkowski): Hearings to examine S.630, to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to the Quapaw Nation and certain members of the Quapaw Nation in accordance with the recommendation of the United States Court of Federal Claims, S.1514/H.R.2389, to take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation, S.2796, to provide for a land exchange in San Bernardino County, California, S.2871/H.R.2400, to take certain Federal land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pit River Tribe, S.3219, to transfer certain Federal land into trust for certain Indian Pueblos in the State of New Mexico, and S.3475/H.R.2916, to authorize, ratify, and confirm the Agreement of Settlement and Compromise to Resolve the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim in the State of New York. · Jun 3, 2026