At the Dakota Access Pipeline site, officers used pepper spray against demonstrators on government land. The protesters say the pipeline would violate sacred Indian lands and could cause pollution.
Alaska Native Government & Policy
Obama: Army Corps examining possible rerouting of Dakota Access Pipeline
“There’s an obligation for authorities to show restraint,” in their handling of people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, President Obama said in an interview with the news organization Now This.
More than 1 million ‘check in’ on Facebook to support the Standing Rock Sioux
It’s a show of support for the tribe that has been rallying against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which the tribe says could contaminate drinking water and harm sacred lands.
Tensions escalate as police clear protesters near Dakota Access Pipeline
Law enforcement in North Dakota arrested more than 140 on private land owned by the pipeline company. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe wants to prevent the pipeline from running under the Missouri River.
National Guard seeks Alaska Natives with subsistence skills
The Army National Guard has announced the start of a three-year pilot program that gives waivers to Alaska Natives who might be trying to join the Guard.
Native artisans worry ivory bans in other states could reverberate in Alaska
The federal government instituted a near-total ban on the domestic commercial trade of African elephant ivory, but many Alaskans are concerned the backlash from this ban is affecting other ivories. St. Lawrence Islander Susie Silook is the author of a petition to protect walrus ivory and other marine mammal by-products from various states’ legislation that would see it banned as a response to the federal ban.