The tribes selected for the pilot program include Ketchikan Indian Community, the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, King Island Native Community, Knik Tribe and Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope.
Alaska Native Government & Policy
Tlingit and Haida shows support for bill that would ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ Alaskans
The statement comes amid what advocates feel are escalating attacks on LGBTQ+ rights from Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration.
Ketchikan tribe’s business arm eyes ‘healing center’ to help with opioid crisis
It will be the first major project for the Ketchikan Tribal Business Corporation.
Metlakatla launches homegrown historical archive: ‘We have the right to know about our people’
Students will interview their parents, aunts, uncles and neighbors, learning more about their family’s history and the history of Annette Island.
Ninth Circuit reaffirms Metlakatla’s off-reservation fishing rights but leaves extent up to lower court
A federal appeals court has affirmed Metlakatla tribal members’ right to fish in their traditional waters without state permits.
Alaska tribal entities to receive federal land transfers for health care facilities
President Biden signed a bill in December that gives Indian Health Service land to the SEARHC in Sitka, the Tanana Tribal Council in Tanana and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage.