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Melanie Yazzie: "25% of Native households (10 -15 people per household on average) are food insecure [...] infrastructure is chronically lacking in reservation communities."

"Many native students are cut off from education due lack of a functioning internet infrastructure across reservations."

"Tribes need to pursue international relations with nations who are not our colonial occupiers such as China, Cuba, etc."

"The federal gov't takes a huge role in financial allocation across communities. We have always pushed for direct control of finances and resources"

Chief Daniels: "We took a trip to Cuba not too long ago and we had discussions with the Minister of Health [...] and were provided with a great amount of operational and prevention information. We left with a great willingness for working together."

"If we can work with a country who is recognized as a leader around the world in healthcare and if we can build relationships with those countries, our message of Canada is that we should pursue this. [...] we have some communities who are already working with Cuban doctors."

"Cuban doctors and the Cuban health service would bring a lot of value to our planning. We are moving quickly to have Cuban doctors and nurses reside in our communities."

"We take these initiatives so we can have better outcomes for our peoples."

"We haven't had direct control. We manage their systems. We manage poverty. Our leaders are stuck."

"First Nations receive less than 1% of federal allocations for COVID relief."

"Our strength is in our collectivity. It will take a great deal of coalition building and unity to push back."

Destiny Morris (Red Braid Alliance): "The work of oppression is not just done by the Canadian gov't or RMCP, it is done by Canadian citizens. They do the work of ideological and physical violence for the state."

"Canadian vigilantes are becoming more violent against homeless and indigenous people, in some cases hospitalizing them after group attacks."

"The govt doesn't view a homeless person as a person as we do. Once a homeless person joins a collective, the state is forced into an uncomfortable position of acknowledging them as a human. Once this person is a human, that means responsibility. This is not what the govt wants."

"Last week, deaths by overdose have been the highest they have been since 2013. We are not allowed to do CPR."