notice they had to furlough 300 employees and just last week i heard that in the northern california, very small community, had to furlough 60 employees. now that might not sound like a big number, but you think about those furloughed employees and their dependence now becomes for, you know, food service, food assistance, and general aid, particularly in the great plains area where there's already starting to be the winter blizzards are setting in and energy subsidies are important. all of those things require some assistance through the tribal government, who hasn't been paid. from this shutdown. >> jackie, you and i talked earlier during the sort of election cycle, and i'm reminded again of that battle over the violence against women act and sort of the role that indigenous women were playing in that entire fight. and it just makes me think again, is there some sense that american indians are simply disposable because they are not politically relevant in the ways