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November 19, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H9049 REPORT ON RESOLUTION PRO- I am the product of generations of Each of these sovereign nations has VIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF people who planted and harvested since their own unique culture and tradition H.R. 1309, WORKPLACE VIOLENCE time immemorial. My ancestors cared and stories that add important threads PREVENTION FOR HEALTH CARE for the land, respected our air and our to the fabric of our Nation. AND SOCIAL SERVICE WORKERS water, and passed down those respon- I think about some of the most ex- ACT; PROVIDING FOR PRO- sibilities to their future generations. traordinary moments that I have had CEEDINGS DURING THE PERIOD It is because of my people and the as a Representative: FROM NOVEMBER 22, 2019, first people on this continent that we Visiting with the Quinault Indian THROUGH DECEMBER 2, 2019; AND stand here today on this floor. In fact, Nation along with the U.S. Commission PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION our Constitution was largely influ- on Civil Rights, and having conversa- OF MOTIONS TO SUSPEND THE enced by the Iroquois Confederacy. tions about some of the civil rights RULES Tribes here on the East Coast had offi- challenges, not just facing the cial relationships with the crowned Mr. DESAULNIER (during the Spe- Quinault Nation, but Native peoples heads of Europe. cial Order of Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Geor- throughout this country. When we talk about Native American gia), from the Committee on Rules, Visiting the Makah Tribe during history, we must recognize that Native submitted a privileged report (Rept. Makah Days, and going on a hike with American history is American history, No. 116–302) on the resolution (H. Res. the then-chairman of the Tribe, going and throughout this history, our ances- 713) providing for consideration of the out to the northwestern tip of the con- tors held fast to a belief that our peo- bill (H.R. 1309) to direct the Secretary tinental United States. My daughter ple would endure. was with us and she asked the Tribal of Labor to issue an occupational safe- We are reminded of our resilience by ty and health standard that requires chair: ‘‘Is this the end of the world?’’ people like: Joy Harjo, from the And he said, ‘‘We consider it the be- covered employers within the health Muscogee Creek Nation, the first Na- care and social service industries to de- ginning of the world.’’ tive American poet laureate in our Visiting the Quileute Tribe and par- velop and implement a comprehensive country’s history, named just this workplace violence prevention plan, ticipating in their festival out in La year. Push, which is one of the most beau- and for other purposes; providing for Our colleague, SHARICE DAVIDS, my proceedings during the period from No- tiful places on the planet. sister, as one of the first Native Amer- Visiting with the Hoh Tribe and cele- vember 22, 2019, through December 2, ican women elected to Congress in our 2019; and providing for consideration of brating a water project that that Tribe country’s history. had led the way on and touring with motions to suspend the rules, which Ruth Anna Buffalo, is a citizen of the their Tribe and seeing some amazing was referred to the House Calendar and Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation assets and also seeing some of the real ordered to be printed. from North Dakota, a State legislator challenges that they have. who is fighting to end the crisis of f Just recently visiting the Chehalis missing and murdered indigenous NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE Tribe, seeing some of their enterprises women and to make her State more eq- MONTH and seeing the value of the work that uitable for its indigenous citizens. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Tommy Orange, a Cheyenne and they do, how much it contributes to the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- Arapaho award-winning writer from the local economy there, and how uary 3, 2019, the gentlewoman from Oakland. much it means to their ability to pro- New Mexico (Ms. HAALAND) is recog- Tatanka Means, a Navajo actor and vide services to their Tribal members. nized for 60 minutes as the designee of activist, and so many more. Visiting the Lower Elwha Klallam the majority leader. This month is set aside to celebrate Tribe and visiting their ancestral lands Ms. HAALAND. Madam Speaker, I the contributions that Native Ameri- and seeing the dam removal project rise today in honor of Native American cans have made to our country and to that occurred there that is giving new Heritage Month. And as part of this ac- recognize that there is so much more birth to the environment there in that knowledgment, I wish to state that we that the Federal Government must do region. are on Indian land. The Nacotchtanks, to ensure that Native nations have Visiting with multiple generations of known for trading right here through- every opportunity afforded to every the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, vis- out the Chesapeake area, were the American, which includes healthcare, iting their leaders and hearing about original inhabitants of the land we are education, public safety, housing, and the important role that fishing and standing on right now. economic development. shellfish growing has meant for their I am a proud member of the Pueblo of Madam Speaker, I yield to the gen- Tribe for generations and generations. Laguna in the great State of New Mex- tleman from Washington (Mr. KILMER). Visiting the Port Gamble S’Klallam ico. My mother raised me to be a Pueb- Mr. KILMER. Madam Speaker, I Tribe just this past year and hearing lo woman, and as such, I have an obli- thank Representative HAALAND, not about some extraordinarily innovative gation to my people and the quest of just for giving me some time to speak, work that they are doing to try to re- all Native American communities to but for being such a terrific leader and duce recidivism in our criminal justice safeguard our cultures and traditions being such an important voice, both for system and give people a second and do all I can to ensure that our peo- her district, and for people all over this chance. ple have a government that lives up to country. Sitting down just this past year for its trust obligations. She, along with SHARICE DAVIDS, are lunch with the leaders of the Trust obligations were promises two superstars of the freshman class Skokomish Tribe in a beautiful Tribal made to all of our Tribes in exchange who have been just terrific in adding center and hearing about some of the for the tens of millions of acres of land their voices to this body. challenges that their Tribe faces and that became the United States of I also want to recognize GWEN MOORE some of the opportunities that they America. As a child, I was taught to who has just been a tremendous cham- have. value our open space, our land, our pion on behalf of Native Americans and Visiting with the Squaxin Island water, and animals. has been a real leader on issues like the Tribe, visiting their child development In spite of the tremendous hardships Violence Against Women Act and has center and seeing the investments that my grandparents faced through their made a tremendous amount of progress they are making in kids and in future experiences in living through the In- for Native Americans throughout this generations. dian boarding school era, the assimila- country. Developing a friendship with the tion era, and being at the forefront of As was mentioned, November marks Suquamish Tribe with their chairman, moving our people into the modern era, Native American Heritage Month, a Leonard Forsman, who has come into I am here to advocate for the issues time to honor the first Americans. I this Chamber for the State of the and policies that will offer a clean am proud to represent 11 Tribes that Union, who has beaten me in basket- planet and opportunities now and for have called my region home since time ball, and hearing him speak passion- future generations. immemorial. ately about treaty obligations. VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:25 Nov 20, 2019 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00089 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K19NO7.052 H19NOPT1 Sspencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with HOUSE H9050 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 19, 2019 I could talk about others, the Tulalip I am so very pleased to join my col- nerable in the broader community, Tribe that recently hosted an impor- league, DEB HAALAND, as one of the from young children to seniors in our tant conversation about protecting first Native American women—it is community. Puget Sound and honoring Billy Frank about time—to join this body in cele- In my life as an elected official, first Jr. brating Native American Heritage at the State level and now in Congress, Madam Speaker, the Snoqualmie Month. I have had so many wonderful friends Tribe, from your district, visited with It is fitting here in November, as we and allies in the Tribal community. As me just today. That is a Tribe that is think about Thanksgiving, to celebrate a matter of fact, I grew up in a commu- very important in our region, and in Native American Heritage Month, con- nity where I had many friends, and I their ancestral homelands is where I sidering the welcoming of foreigners to learned so many things from my Na- almost proposed to my wife before I this land first inhabited by the Native tive friends.