WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.160 And this will be edited and all that fancy stuff, and then anything you can't answer. 00:08.160 --> 00:09.960 You can just move on from it. 00:09.960 --> 00:17.280 So thank you so much for this interview today on behalf of PBS Wisconsin and also ICT Indian 00:17.280 --> 00:18.280 Country Today. 00:18.280 --> 00:24.840 All of my stories are also shared with Indian Country Today, who has the biggest news platform 00:24.840 --> 00:27.200 for indigenous news here in the US. 00:27.200 --> 00:29.000 So thank you. 00:29.000 --> 00:36.200 To start, for our records, can I have you slowly say and spell your first and last name? 00:36.200 --> 00:46.120 First name is Jason, J-A-S-O-N, last name is Schlender, S-C-H-L-E-N-D-E-R. 00:46.120 --> 00:51.400 And also for our records, can I have you confirm your tribal affiliation? 00:51.400 --> 00:56.400 Yeah, I'm an enrolled citizen of the LeCudre Band of Ojibwe. 00:56.400 --> 00:58.400 Okay, great. 00:58.400 --> 00:59.400 Thank you. 00:59.400 --> 01:03.040 And your full title in this job, in this role. 01:03.040 --> 01:08.240 Currently, I am the executive administrator of the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife 01:08.240 --> 01:09.240 Commission. 01:09.240 --> 01:10.240 Okay, great. 01:10.240 --> 01:11.240 Thank you. 01:11.240 --> 01:16.320 So we'll start with the gas leak first, but just in a broad sense. 01:16.320 --> 01:21.600 Can you tell me about the overall work that this organization does? 01:21.960 --> 01:28.400 Yeah, so Glyphic has been where it was formed in 1984. 01:28.400 --> 01:34.880 And our role is to assist the tribes in implementing their treaty rights. 01:34.880 --> 01:44.600 Treaties that were signed by tribes with the United States, going back to the mid-1800s. 01:44.600 --> 01:55.520 In addition to that, we provide expertise and knowledge on specific areas, enforcement, 01:55.520 --> 02:03.400 biological services, intergovernmental affairs, public information, and planning and development. 02:03.400 --> 02:13.120 So those areas are there to, those resources are available to assist our member tribes. 02:13.120 --> 02:20.320 And so we operate based on the delegated authority of those, delegated sovereign authority 02:20.320 --> 02:24.080 of those tribes. 02:24.080 --> 02:34.000 In regards to Enbridge and the gas leak that's affecting the nearby Bad River community, 02:34.000 --> 02:41.960 tell me about really some of the work and the early conversations with just the talk 02:42.040 --> 02:45.040 of having this pipeline here. 02:45.040 --> 02:53.240 Well, the pipeline has been around for a long time, and so we support Bad River in their 02:53.240 --> 03:07.360 effort to, in their personal fight to not have Line 5 go through their boundaries. 03:07.360 --> 03:15.320 So they have, they're currently in litigation with that, are about that. 03:15.320 --> 03:18.560 And there's been this, now this reroute. 03:18.560 --> 03:26.080 And so it goes around the reservation, boundaries, but still it kind of goes through the watershed. 03:26.080 --> 03:36.200 So our role in that is that we have environmental specialists that monitor different areas of 03:36.200 --> 03:38.320 what we call the seated territory. 03:38.320 --> 03:48.600 So we do not function within the reservation boundaries that try specifically Bad River. 03:48.600 --> 03:54.800 You know, that's there exists within our own sovereign capacity. 03:54.800 --> 04:01.240 So we operate off the reserve, outside the reservation boundaries, and so we assist them 04:01.240 --> 04:14.920 in monitoring sites and areas that are of concern and have always been of value to 04:14.920 --> 04:15.920 the tribes. 04:15.920 --> 04:24.960 So that's environmental awareness and protection, habitat and ecosystems and things like that, 04:24.960 --> 04:28.160 being able to assess and monitor those things. 04:28.160 --> 04:35.720 Because ultimately it's, it's our role is to ensure that the resources which the tribes 04:35.720 --> 04:42.000 harvest is clean and sustainable. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.680 So that's our, that's our role. 04:44.680 --> 05:10.200 So the real quick, can you put your phone on airplane, you know, that's, that's my watch. 05:10.200 --> 05:18.320 I can just take it off.