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An Alaska Native mutual aid network tackles the climate crisis
Smokehouse Collective invests in “our resilience as Native peoples to persevere in our cultures.”
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Goldbelt celebrates 50th anniversary with tributes, prayer, dancing and hopes for future
Leaders of local Alaska Native Regional Corporation looking ahead generations rather than years.
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Resilient Peoples and Place: Celebrating and supporting Southeast Alaska’s growing arts economy
Thousands of artists, tens of millions of dollars annually, generations of passing on traditions.
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Longtime Tlingit artist and activist Doug Chilton closing his shop Dec. 24, heading south
Juneau-born resident plans to return for One People Canoe Society trips he founded, other events.
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Plan for Alaska’s first tribally operated public schools inches closer to completion
Tlingit and Haida among five tribes slated to be part of the five-year pilot program.
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Alaska Native leaders bring light to state-specific challenges in federal MMIP report
Alaska is the only state with its own chapter in a report on missing and murdered Indigenous people…
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Alaska tribes urge protection for federal lands
80% of food comes from surrounding lands and waters for Alaska Native communities off road system.
Neighbors
Neighbors: SHI to sponsor its first-ever juried film festival
Event to be held during Celebration 2024
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Biden administration could wade into lawsuit over Southeast Alaska tribal fishing rights
The Biden administration could jump into a high-profile lawsuit involving a Southeast Alaska Native community that’s fighting with…
Neighbors
Neighbors: SHI launches contest for Celebration 2024 art design
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is holding a contest to solicit a design for next year’s Celebration, a biennial…
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Conservation group supports formation of new Alaska Native corporations
The conservation group the Wilderness Society has changed its position and now supports a bill that would create…
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Communal Friendsgiving allows some a day of thanks without observing Thanksgiving
Many Alaska Natives, other Indigenous peoples in U.S., disagree with holiday’s traditional narrative.
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Totem poles removed from Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. headquarters building
Goldbelt Inc. plans to place the three totems at its headquarters for 50th-anniversary celebration.
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Resilient Peoples and Place: Healing the land together
Collaboration in full swing by tribes, federal and state agencies, local and environmental interests
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Yakutat ousted its village corporations’ leaders. Here’s what’s next.
The saga in the Southeast Alaska village of Yakutat is over.
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Douglas Indian Association cultural center near Treadwell trail gets planning commission OK
Some neighbors, commissioners concerned about traffic, other impacts of 4,000-square-foot building.
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One woman died on an Alaska mayor’s property. Then another. No one has ever been charged.
Ex-mayor’s sons faced few consequences despite history of similar allegations.
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$2M grant for Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority seeks to help more than 100 Southeast families
Agency among six nationwide winners for programs “making homes more accessible and affordable.”
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Tlingit and Haida household pandemic aid program ends this month
Assistance program for tribal citizens to cover economic impacts of COVID-19 started in 2021.