{"id":425178,"date":"2026-02-10T18:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=425178"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:13:50","slug":"testimony-polly-watson-of-bristol-bay-native-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/02\/10\/testimony-polly-watson-of-bristol-bay-native-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony: Polly Watson of Bristol Bay Native Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"
Testimony: Polly Watson of Bristol Bay Native Corporation<\/div>\r\n
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<\/P>\r\nThe following is the written testimony of Polly Watson, Vice President of Operations for Bristol Bay Native Corporation.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nWatson appears before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a> at an oversight hearing entitled \u201cEconomic Self-Determination in Action: Examining the Small Business Administration Native 8(a) Program<\/a>.\u201d She provides testimony about the federal government’s contracting program for Alaska Native corporations.\r\n

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Committee Notice<\/div>\r\nEconomic Self-Determination in Action: Examining Small Business Administration Native 8(a) Program<\/a> (February 10, 2026)\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polly Watson of Bristol Bay Native Corporation testifies before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on February 10, 2026.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":411376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,13,1,14],"tags":[5366,482,78,79,80,481,7120,280,213,91],"class_list":["post-425178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-119th","tag-8a","tag-alaska","tag-alaska-native","tag-ancs","tag-contracting","tag-polly-watson","tag-sba","tag-scia","tag-senate","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/11\/Polly-Watson-02.10.26-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1MBI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430647,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425178\/revisions\/430647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}