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And this will be edited and all that fancy stuff, and then anything you can't answer.

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You can just move on from it.

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So thank you so much for this interview today on behalf of PBS Wisconsin and also ICT Indian

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Country Today.

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All of my stories are also shared with Indian Country Today, who has the biggest news platform

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for indigenous news here in the US.

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So thank you.

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To start, for our records, can I have you slowly say and spell your first and last name?

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First name is Jason, J-A-S-O-N, last name is Schlender, S-C-H-L-E-N-D-E-R.

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And also for our records, can I have you confirm your tribal affiliation?

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Yeah, I'm an enrolled citizen of the LeCudre Band of Ojibwe.

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Okay, great.

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Thank you.

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And your full title in this job, in this role.

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Currently, I am the executive administrator of the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife

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Commission.

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Okay, great.

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Thank you.

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So we'll start with the gas leak first, but just in a broad sense.

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Can you tell me about the overall work that this organization does?

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Yeah, so Glyphic has been where it was formed in 1984.

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And our role is to assist the tribes in implementing their treaty rights.

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Treaties that were signed by tribes with the United States, going back to the mid-1800s.

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In addition to that, we provide expertise and knowledge on specific areas, enforcement,

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biological services, intergovernmental affairs, public information, and planning and development.

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So those areas are there to, those resources are available to assist our member tribes.

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And so we operate based on the delegated authority of those, delegated sovereign authority

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of those tribes.

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In regards to Enbridge and the gas leak that's affecting the nearby Bad River community,

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tell me about really some of the work and the early conversations with just the talk

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of having this pipeline here.

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Well, the pipeline has been around for a long time, and so we support Bad River in their

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effort to, in their personal fight to not have Line 5 go through their boundaries.

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So they have, they're currently in litigation with that, are about that.

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And there's been this, now this reroute.

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And so it goes around the reservation, boundaries, but still it kind of goes through the watershed.

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So our role in that is that we have environmental specialists that monitor different areas of

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what we call the seated territory.

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So we do not function within the reservation boundaries that try specifically Bad River.

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You know, that's there exists within our own sovereign capacity.

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So we operate off the reserve, outside the reservation boundaries, and so we assist them

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in monitoring sites and areas that are of concern and have always been of value to

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the tribes.

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So that's environmental awareness and protection, habitat and ecosystems and things like that,

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being able to assess and monitor those things.

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Because ultimately it's, it's our role is to ensure that the resources which the tribes

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harvest is clean and sustainable.

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So that's our, that's our role.

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So the real quick, can you put your phone on airplane, you know, that's, that's my watch.

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I can just take it off.