The Petersburg assembly voted to send a letter opposing a bill that would create five new urban Native corporations in Southeast Alaska and transfer land from the Tongass National Forest to those corporations.
Alaska Native Government & Policy
Supreme Court declines to hear Metlakatla fisherman’s case challenging state fishing regulations
The legal fight centered on a Metlakatla man charged with illegally fishing in waters just outside the state’s only Native reservation.
Tlingit and Haida delegates reelect president, pass resolutions at Tribal Assembly
President Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson was reelected for a fifth term at the tribe.
Landless communities advocate for action at Tlingit and Haida’s Tribal Assembly
Getting land to the five communities will require an amendment to ANCSA, a law that has been amended over 100 times.
Supporters back Yup’ik name for Dillingham creek
Everyone who spoke at the Curyung Tribe’s talking circle supported changing the name of a stream that runs through Dillingham. The current name of the creek includes a slur against Indigenous women.
More than 50 Alaska Native tribes support Jackson for Supreme Court
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pushing for a vote tonight on moving her nomination to the full Senate and hope to get Jackson confirmed before they go on Easter recess this weekend.