alaska. in 1954, the u.s. department of the interior did a health survey on the native people of alaska. here is a quote from that survey. the indigenous people of native alaska are the victims of sickness, crippling conditions and premature death to a degree exceeded in very few parts of the world. health problems are nearly out of hand. if americans could see for themselves the large numbers of tuberculosis, the crippled, the blind, the malnourished, and the desperately ill among this small alaska native population, it would have a profound effect on them. and it did. even in these conditions, the alaska native people joined hands hearts and said, this is our land. we need rights to it. they did this by coming together. in the mid-1960's, they formed the alaska native federation of natives, a.f.n. as we called it back home, an entity very important to our communities. of course the native people in our state look for potential allies. in the lower 48 they gave speeches, they formed newspapers, the tundra times which was highly read throughout the state, celebrated throughout the globe a

more than 84 percent of american indian and alaska native women have experienced violence in their lifetime. and research shows that 97 percent of victims face non native perpetrators that leads to difficulties when trying to prosecute offenders. there was this decision called the all the font decision which greatly affected tribal sovereignty and the ability to prosecute non natives on indigenous land. so if we have a non native person come on to tribal land and there is a murder in the marine on tribal land, we are not able to prosecute in many tribes. at the end of 2019, there were 563 active missing person records of indigenous women reports to adjust the numbers recorded or unlikely un under account. there are a number of reasons for including under reporting and poor relations between the police and the community. and indigenous women going missing is not an issue. so it's 500 year old us problems and 1st contact and colonization when we had trafficking of indigenous for many young girls in it through government policy and attacks on our tribal sovereignty that leave us really extreme

in the last year, 53 cases of missing american indian or alaska native women have been uploaded to the missing persons database. they make up more than 5 percent of the cases of missing women across the us. even though indigenous women represent less than one percent of the country's population, it's a statistic, a on his parents are all too aware of it, worries me all the time. because even though she is training to defend herself and the rain, that's not a $100.00 proof that nothing ever happened tour and she will always be able to protect herself across the us. more than 84 percent of american indian and alaska native women had experienced violence in their lifetime. and research shows that 97 percent of victims faced non native perpetrators. that leads to difficulties when trying to prom defenders. there was this decision called the all the font decision which greatly affected tribal sovereignty and the ability to prosecute non natives on indigenous land. so if we have a non native person and come on to tribal land, and there is a murder in the murray's on tribal land, we are not a

obesity is at a critical level. 48% of the american indian and alaska native nation is 14 -- is obese. obesity is a significant risk factor as we deal with type two diabetes and heart disease as the leading cause of death for indigenous people in the united states. we have seen improvements but american indians and alaska natives have the highest prevalence of type two diabetes in the nation and alaska native children and adult -- adults are more likely than hispanic adults to be diagnosed with type two diabetes. the prevalence of coronary heart disease is about 50% greater for indigenous peoples. my personal experience i served as a position in arizona for a number of years with among the highest rates of type 2 diabetes in the world. firsthand the challenges of a population with limited access to healthy food sources. on the pine ridge indian reservation, the supermarket is 90 miles away in rapid city. significant barriers to accessing healthy foods. many of them are suffering from diabetes and heart disease. many tribal communities, substantial expenditures manage complications suc

furthermore, these resources can be brought to bear on tribes and alaska native villages. efforts to protect themselves from climate change through the use of these same resources in distributed energy projects, whether that's rooftop, solar, community, solar microgrids and as a way to enforce and reinforce energy, self sufficiency, energy sovereignty but almost more importantly, from a climate change perspective, energy, resiliency and reliability. but these goals can only be accomplished through mass deployment of these types of technologies with the plummeting costs, especially around solar and storage, federal support, such as additional technical and financial assistance, can be more impactful and more meaningful. but while this federal support is necessary, it's not sufficient. leveraging these kind of resources can still be very expensive. a distributed energy projects, of course, while again we're reducing costs, the cost of storage is still relatively high. the cost of microgrids is still relatively high. um, even blue lake rancheria. which president sharp referen

literally trying to kill thousands of alaskan jobs and impoverish alaska native communities. do the people in new mexico know their senior senator spends so much time trying to give alaska oil-and-gas workers pink slips and impoverish nate itch communities? i wonder. i wonder. madam president, i thought for just a moment maybe i should do something against new mexico. but then i'm like no, you know what, that's not my style. i wouldn't want to hurt new mexico oil-and-gas workers or native communities. they're all great americans, i'm sure. we're a great country. i wouldn't want to target them the way this senator's targeting my state, trying to hurt thousands of alaskan working families. and it should be emfa sized, and i want to emphasize, that's not how we work here. that's not what i've seen in my almost seven years in the u.s. senate, senators trying to attack other senators' states, specifically focusing on hurting working families. the vast majority of the senators i know wouldn't do that at all. that's not how business is conducted here in the united states senate. to t

similarly american indians, alaska natives, hawaiian natives or pacific islanders or those who have two or more races makeup eight abortionist -- a disproportionate share of the homeless population. whites and asians are significantly underrepresented. what are causing these differences and the racial breakdown of homelessness? guest: i think you know, one of the things that we first figured out when we started trying to get better data about who is homeless in the united states really a couple of decades ago now is just what we suspected, but did not have the data to show and now we have the data to show it. homelessness hits a lot harder at black people than white people. and, you know one can set that speculate about the reasons, but it is pretty obvious, homelessness is something that happens to people who have a lot of other bad things happen to them. you know, all of the different disparities in income, disparities in spending time in prison, disparities in what people are paying for rent, all of those sort of add up so that -- and evolve into bad things that happened to black peo

will you commit to consulting and coordinating with native hawaiians, native americans and alaska native communities on the deployment of these ntia funds? >> i i absolutely will commit to that. >> thank you very much here ms. sohn, nice to see you. earlier this year i with other members of this committee wrote a letter to the ceos of att, verizon, t-mobile asking for commitment to protect consumers before the carriers shut down 3g networks. do you share our concerns about a 3g shutdown? i know your excellent summarizing so could you please summarize the problem for consumers and what you could do about it as as a commissione? >> sure, senator schatz. basically, carriers want to stop there to g and 3g and in some cases 4g transmissions, their mobile transmission because they want to move to 5g which is important. we want that. it's going to be a transformative technology. we want that to happen. however, there are still obligated to 13-17% of americans still rely on 2g or 3g. so shutting it down too soon that some sort of mitigation leave a lot of people without the ability to call in en

this week, madam president, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of congress' passage of the alaska nativelement act, what we call in alaska, ancsa, the largest settlement of indigenous land claims certainly in america, probably in the world. really successful act. not perfect. very innovative. but it's been litigated like crazy. we had a case from the ninth circuit several years ago that essentially said ancsa created reservation land throughout the entire state of alaska. that would have changed the history of alaska forever. of course the ninth circuit got it wrong. that case went up to the supreme court, 9-0, the supreme court smacked down the ninth circuit. ancsa didn't do that. that's not what congress intended. you think it would be good for these judges this week if i could sit down with this to help them understand that? it would be really good, really important. it would help them for their jobs. just this year the d.c. circuit on another ancsa related case, the chialas case got ancsa wrong again. the supreme court ruled on it four months ago, a huge victory for my state again. w

similarly american indians, alaska natives, hawaiian natives or pacific islanders or those who have twomore races makeup eight abortionist -- a disproportionate share of the homeless population. whites and asians are significantly underrepresented. what are causing these differences and the racial breakdown of homelessness? guest: i think you know, one of the things that we first figured out when we started trying to get better data about who is homeless in the united states really a couple of decades ago now is just what we suspected, but did not have the data to show and now we have the data to show it. homelessness hits a lot harder at black people than white people. and, you know one can set that speculate about the reasons, but it is pretty obvious, homelessness is something that happens to people who have a lot of other bad things happen to them. you know, all of the different disparities in income, disparities in spending time in prison, disparities in what people are paying for rent, all of those sort of add up so that -- and evolve into bad things that happened to black people

control and prevention, covid-19 infections were three times higher for american indians and alaska natives compared to white americans during the first seven months of the pandemic. other reports revealed that one in 475 native americans in the u.s. has died from covid-19 compared to one in 825 white americans. the ravages of the pandemic have been compounded for our tribal neighbors due to longstanding health disparities and social inequities. the deaths of tribal elders from covid-19 caused an incalculable and irreplaceable loss of cultural knowledge and language. tribes must be given a fair opportunity to put federal aid dollars to work tackling these serious issues. h.r. 5119 is a commonsense step to ensure that tribes have parity with recipients who have not faced similar delays in gaining access to cares act funding. finally, i want to assure my colleagues that c.b.o. has confirmed that this bill does not increase federal spending. so i urge my colleagues to support this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york reserves. the ge

i want us to recognize this act as an act that promoted my indian alaska natives. if you haven't tried buffalo jerky, try it, too. this is a good piece of legislation, bipartisan working together. and i'm proud to be the sponsor of it. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alaska yields back. the gentlewoman from new mexico is recognized. ms. leger fernandez: i'm very lucky to have on the subcommittee for indigenous people representative, the dean of the house, don young, as the ranking member. the amount of work we do in that committee that is bipartisan and always looks at what is the issue that must be solved and works together to solve the issue is exactly is in this bill. we are recognizing there was a tragedy in our history where we tried to eliminate the food source for the indigenous people of the americas and we did. we caused hunger and caused deprivation but we are recognizing that today and going to be giving the assistance to all tribes to manage buffalo herds. we love bison buryingers at my home and i have been at ho

and lawyer focused on tribal sovereignty and safety for native women and children. carry coffer, member of the clinic, tribe of south east alaska, and national indigenous women's resource center, senior native affairs advisor. thank you both for joining me on up front. mary katherine, in recent years, thousands of native american women have been reported missing law enforcement is often slow to react, and families are often left waiting month for answers. and they're often dismissed and told that going missing isn't a crime. what's at the root of this crisis? you know, such an important question and i think we have to understand that this crisis is both cultural and legal in nature. i say cultural because violence against native women is the practice that began with the colonial conquest of the united states. i mean, all you have to do is read christopher columbus, his journals to understand that this is a man who literally bragged about raping and murdering indigenous women when he got lost and washed up on the shoreline over here. so you've got that. you've got the history of the u. s. military using rape and homicide against

nativity. these are all wonderful, especially this alaskan one, alaska, the lobby dada, present. the la from the birth of jesus has to do with family neu, cynthia morris. so it's a special aspect of religion. the little june, back in germany in the mountains at saxony, siphoned celebrates christmas all the year round. ringback the wooden handicrafts on display here are the creations of the local what workers the small town is home to over 120 with working shops. and since the mid 18th century, they've been carving christmas decorations, also with images from earlier mining days. the figures embodied stories from the region just as the christmas with the name on the blues and visitors aren't just taking a christmas arch or pyramid back home with them. and i'd say they're taking a piece of the or mountains with guns us. so i think we really help spread good cheer here doing the carvings from siphoned our world famous today as a highlights the festive christmas decorations i. with that we wrap up another show, but just a quick reminder before we go check out our website for this wee

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nativity. these are all wonderful, especially this alaskan one, alaska, the lobby dada, present, the la from the birth of jesus has to do with family noise, cynthia morris. so it's a special aspect of religion validity, june, back in germany, in the mountains at saxony, siphoned celebrates christmas all the year round. the wooden handicrafts on display . here are the creations of the local what workers. the small town is home to over $120.00 woodworking shops. and since the mid 18th century, they've been carving christmas decorations. also with images from earlier mining days. the figures embodied stories from the region just as the christmas with the name on the boys and visitors aren't just taking a christmas arch or pyramid back home with them. i'd say they're taking a piece of the or mountains with guns us. so i think we really help spread good cheer here, doing the carvings from siphoned our world famous today as a highlights the festive christmas decorations and with that we wrap up another show. but just a quick reminder before we go check out our website for this week here is draw and a

commission acknowledges the disproportionate health disparities faced by american indians and native alaskan communities such as shorter life expectancy and higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, aids, premature death, domestic violence and other violence exposure, stress-related illness such as high blood pressure, depression and homelessness and suicide, as well as morbidity and mortality due to the covid-19 pandemic. and, whereas, the health commission acknowledges that american indians and native alaskans may face barriers including unstable or lack of housing, food insecurity, and limited access to culturally sensitive health care services. and, whereas, the health commission acknowledges that the existing american indians and native alaskan health data had gaps characterized by a lack of selection on the american indian and underreporting on the american indian and native alaskan health indicators, rendering data insufficient to fully identify the disproportionate health disparities faced by the american indian and native alaskan communities. and, whereas, the health commission ackn

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alaska airlines canceled 17 flights. as always, check your flight status before leaving for the airport. >>> now to a story you will only see right here on nbc bay area. a nativity scene was stolen from a front porch. >> it was caught on camera and a neighbor helps restore their faith in humanity. >> their house was all set up for christmas to welcome family and their son, a marine stationed on the east coast returning home for the first time in months. but home is not quite the same. >> i was very, very upset. >> their cherished nativity scene representing the birth of jesus was stolen off their porch, and a man caught on camera in plain view fills up a bag and takes off. video shows an hour later he comes back, this time with a hat on to steal the rest of it. >> at first my husband was, calm down, it's fine. i said, no it's not fine. >> the nativity was passed down from her mother, and she hoped to give it to her children. >> for us that was the meaning for christmas. growing up, my parents didn't have a lot but to us that was meaningful. >> she posted the video of the crime on next door, and hours later a woman that lives a few miles away showed up with a bra

in the end randy was honored by an alaska native corporation the gold belt corporation. they had been engaged in an airlift, significant airlift, and she was recognized by gold belt for her dedicated efforts assisting them throughout that whole ordeal. so it's nice to know that she had received not only the recognition and thanks from those here, fellows back in alaska, but also the broader international recognition. so i take this moment to just express my thanks to randy. it was a pleasure having her in my office. she has a fabulous family. it was a great pleasure to be able to get to meet her husband, brad, an air force veteran himself. they've got three super great little kid, charlie, ryan, and graham. but i wish randy and her family nothing but the best as she moves forward with her military career. i feel very fortunate that we get some of our nation's best who are able to take kind of a little bit of a detour through their professional trajectory in the military, to come here, work with us, share their level of expertise, and also educate themselves on the intern