We are powerful and we have to exercise that as much as we can and every way we can. amber, what brings you joy with all the amazing projects are working on? i hope to inspire for indigenous youth, whatever they want to, do it is extremely tangible. it s extremely possible. it doesn t matter if you are on the, roads if you feel like there s nowhere. out there is. there s always a way. he s always a way to do what you want to do. if any of us here are proof of anything, we can accomplish whatever you, want to. ali, what brings you joy and hope for community? our youth. are you. with their intelligence. they re true leaders. i m inspired by them every day. they bring me hope. crystal? it s the women. it s our time as native women. i see so much organizing. we ve always been the backbone of communities. it is this amazing time of this ability. it just gives me so much strength and so much hope. kimberly? i have a quote. building a path for the future
The lands and resources that we are still fighting for land back. well, i think there s an irrational fear that alaska natives or native americans want retribution or want vengeance. i have never picked up on that. i feel that we only want equality. we only want to have a seat at the table. we do not want anything more, we just don t want anything less. we also want our way of life not to be challenged. absolutely, we do not want to have to endlessly explain ourselves or justify ourselves. i am just so honored as a alaskan native women to be sitting with the very first alaskan native congresswoman, and i think it s okay to get choked up about that. so, just [speaking non-english] thank you so much. thank you, alyssa, and we are also proud of you and the work that you are doing. thank you. thank you. when people talk about children in cages at the border, this government perfected it a very long time ago with native americans. i think being a separate tribe not affilia
It s one of those things that the majority of the american public doesn t know. there s thousands of indigenous people in this country, women, girls, people that have been murdered and missing. it s a systematic issue. oftentimes, when families will go to report their loved ones that are missing or something s happened, law enforcement, nine times of ten they won t do something about. it again, it goes back to this issue of erasure. what that erasure, does it dehumanizes. even the people the perpetrators of this, they don t say also seem. and they see us as less than human. the stories are so similar. non natives will come on to reservations, they would literally go hunting and go after our women, our girls, our people. i think one of the sad things about, that they re not helping you look for the perpetrators. they re not helping you search for them. and that happens and a lot of reservations. the tribal pd won t do anything. it s like, hello, these are your people. i will add to