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Mary Peltola: “I think that there's been more turnover in recent years than…”

Featuring: Mary Peltola, Democratic | Former U.S. House Representative, Alaska At-Large

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Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) at National Congress of American Indians

Published | Video Starts at 03:13

About 60% of the people in the house have been there six years or less. They're like myself, we're a really new group of people. I think that there's been more turnover in recent years than we've ever seen, for a lot of good reasons. And as native people, we've always had to continually share our story and educate people. But I think now it's even to a greater degree, just very, very basic things, like how many tribes there are in our nation, basic things that we're lacking. (03:13–03:21)

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Asserts that recent years have seen unprecedented turnover in the House of Representatives.

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