so we hope nci will work with us.f any future stimulus money to be cognizant of the fact that reservations don't exist in alaska. and that wording and the verbiage of that effect should not be in stimulus packages. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for your comment. and john? >> there is money that is available for training young people in front communications, especially, in journalism. i met with arne duncan and he holds more money than anybody else for education. and when i told him and asked him what he's doing for indian education, he almost teared up when he talked about going out to lane deer and saying he was really sad. he didn't know how to be able to help. i said there's a lot of ways. nci has got a few ideas about that. so the opportunity to be able to place -- we can help place young people -- we just had a meeting here at the press club with several of these news reporters. helen thomas was there probably the oldest one sitting on the front. but we need to have a native american, strong, independent

. >> this is concerning the tuition waiver at fort lewis college and will nci do to insure the native students can continue to get a free education? >> i'm glad you brought that up. the tuition waiver the college, i will give what i know as the latest information. by the way my children went to fort lewis college and that was a great institution because coming from alaska we have a lot of students who make the trail down to fort lewis. i think we have a caravan of 13 cars my first to my daughter went. i will try to get there. i was a single adult. but we have reached out to find out more about that information. ai understand this is an effort in the state. hi understand that effort has been tabled and it is no longer moving forward and there was an apology about the understanding what how this would penalize indian students from attending a land grant college so i think that issue has been resolved. last question? anyone, last question? jongh? >> one of the past secretaries of energy approached me about the discussion of parking federal money into indian banks so each one of the secre