About 4,500 acres of heavily-logged forest will return to wilderness under a deal involving the federal government and a Southeast Alaska Native corporation.
Alaska Native Corporations
Doyon’s $2B discount: Fair play or rip off?
Doyon, Alaska’s largest private landowner, qualified for a “small” business discount in a public airwaves auction, until the FCC ruled it didn’t. Now it’s in court.
Want to learn Tlingit? There’s a new app for that.
Want to learn Tlingit? Sealaska Heritage Institute recently released two apps for just that.
Report catalogs contaminated land conveyed to Native corporations
Scattered throughout Alaska are hundreds of pieces of land that have been transferred to Alaska Native Corporations by the federal government.Some came with contamination. Getting them cleaned up has been a decades long process, and a new report catalogs those contaminated sites, but leaves some questions about who will orchestrate cleanup – and when.
Longtime business manager ousted from three village corporations
The business manager for Aleknagik Natives Ltd. has been fired and an independent investigation is underway amid accusations that the employee had embezzled money from the village corporation.
Tribal leader optimistic after State Department, EPA meeting
Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal organization says this month’s meetings with the U.S. State Department and Environmental Protection Agency were productive.