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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Betsy Wood “for this first funding cycle, we expect that our implementation awards could begin as soon as August 1st. I want to caveat this to say we expect these, these implementation awards to begin in August, right?”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Betsy Wood “we'll work with CMS to complete any federal review that may be required under the cooperative agreement, and then DOH and ACF will work together to finalize and execute the award agreements with those implementation awards expected to begin in, in August of this year.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Genevieve Mina “I really appreciate the key themes among the advancing proposals. I'm curious about key themes among proposals that were rejected, which were the majority. And I don't know if it's because they were more readiness grants, more ambiguous, but what learning lessons could be provided for those other organizations, especially since the department doesn't have the capacity, or ACF doesn't have the capacity to provide that individual feedback.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Betsy Wood “I would anticipate that those, those subawards would, would be executed in August depending on, you know, what degree of question or back and forth or refinement we need to have. So just want to share that. But we, you know, anticipate that the implementation awards will begin again later this summer. And for the first performance period, organizations should plan to complete their project activities and expend their awarded funds by June 30th, 2027.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Alison Miller “that will be completed by DC REACHI and Commissioner Hedberg, with Commissioner Hedberg making all of the final decisions.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Betsy Wood “we would like the information that we can put onto our website when we announce the outcomes of the full application process to include some sort of a dashboard component. I will say, um, I imagine what you'll see when we, when we first put that online will be the starting point, and that we expect that that will be built out and refined and will grow and get better.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Betsy Wood “over the next several weeks, these applications will move through administrative review, project evaluation, and portfolio review, and we'll cover each of these components in a little more detail a little bit later on in the presentation, but those are the stages that the applications will walk through before the final funding recommendations are developed. We're anticipating that that review and evaluation process, you know, we've, we've been in the thick of it since the application period closed.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Betsy Wood “431 projects advanced, 403 of those were for implementation, 28 were for planning, and that represents 224 unique organizations. We saw a range of project sizes. The largest share of the projects requested or identified that they would be requesting between $250,000 and $1 million, but we did advance projects across the full spectrum of funding levels.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Alison Miller “following that individual project-level evaluation, the department leadership will complete a portfolio-level review, which is where we're sort of checking for that, that broader, more sort of puzzle aspect to the applications, making sure that all of the projects fit together, that there is even distribution across the state, that we're meeting the biggest needs and serving all populations as much as we can.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Alison Miller “applications are being evaluated across 8 different categories that are listed here on the bottom left of the screen, and within each of those categories, each application is rated on a scale of 1 to 5. In order to be eligible for funding, And to move on to the portfolio analysis phase, each application has to score a 3 or higher in every single category.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Betsy Wood “we're working with one of our partners at Guidehouse to put together some dashboards that we can share on our website that will provide the public and this group the opportunity to look in more detail at the projects that are advancing and understand what types of projects are they, where are they located.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Alison Miller “Right now we're in the middle of our subject matter expert internal review. Concurrent with that, ACF is also completing an administrative review where we're checking to make sure that All of the applications are complete, everything is where it's supposed to be, there's nothing that is really unallowable or that stands out as not being appropriate.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Betsy Wood “when we look at the midpoint of the asks, the volume, the dollar amount of the asks from that first letter of interest process, that totaled about $2.5 billion in first-year asks. And we know that we have the $270 million available for this first year.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Advisory Council (July 1, 2026) · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“one can consider that what I have described about traditional food corresponds to the notion of dense social ecological networks developed by this French scholar. These networks are made up of multi-species and are crisscrossed by multidimensional connections between humans and between humans and the living world.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“SHI opened its doors to me in 2023 and allowing me to discover your magnificent region with with a lot of humility and joy, and to meet with such warm and generous people here.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“When elders in Huna are offered, offered goose eggs from Glacier Bay, the most important thing is not the protein in the yolk. It is the fact that these goose eggs provide spiritual and cultural nourishment. As this example shows, one of the most important means to create multi-fiber connections through traditional foodways networks is sharing.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“Native traditional foodways are under pressure nowadays Federal and state regulation, climate deregulation, competition with the commercial sector, and with also sport hunting and fishing, evolution of ways of life, which is something which is normal, you know, all have a negative impact on traditional foodways. Even so, natives really care about these traditional foods. They say that it's good for you, that it's healthy, and that it's healing too.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“What I witnessed and gradually became aware of is the existence of a vast archipelago of multidimensional and cyclical connections of deep networks of attachment, a world in itself, reversing the taken-for-granted relationship between centers and peripheries. What I also witness and experience is the profound dedication of native people here in Southeast Alaska to perpetuate and enhance this multidimensional living heritage, even if it is fragilized by local regional, national, or globalized forces.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“It seems to me that the archipelago paradigm and this idea of relationality perfectly fit with what I wanted to develop in this lecture and also correspond quite well to Southeast Alaska geographical, the Alexander Archipelago, cultural, spiritual, political, and also political context.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“Long durée processes of co-evolution between humans and other species, detailed knowledge gained from observing species behavior and ecosystems functioning, multi-species communities,, and land-stream-ocean continuum, all of these create deep networks of connections.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“Traditional foods and foodways broadly correspond to what is called subsistence food or subsistence practices. In federal and state regulations. Native people in Alaska consider that hunting, fishing, and gathering are central to who they are.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“Transporting this concept and mixing it with Édouard Glissant's idea of archipelago, I propose to develop the notion of archipelago of connections. Speaking of an archipelago of connections can help us to conceptualize what I have already developed in this lecture about holistic traditional foodways and multi-species communities.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“I've discovered the importance of transmission of Tlingit culture and traditional foodways among generations. I also began to discover the fact that these traditional foodways embrace a deep spiritual dimension. This spiritual dimension joins together past, present, and future and concerns the relationship with natural species.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“Salmon, berries, herring eggs, Hollywood are the connectors between people on families, on friends, and also past and future generations. By this way, it's not possible to oppose bad spread-out networks and good multi-fibers one. Networks are never a problem by themself. It's the basis on which they are built and the way we use them that define what they can be.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“How could traditional foodways— I prefer to use this expression rather than subsistence, which is rightfully very controversial— help us to go beyond basic oppositions between spirituality and materiality, between land and ocean, between animals and human beings, between keeping and giving, between the self and the other?”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026

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Renaud Chandivert

“I will focus on past and contemporary connections on relationality. Food is a perfect subject to talk about that because sharing a meal with family and/or with friends with friends is a good way to connect to each other and to develop relationality. Tlingit have a well-known saying, you know, 'When the tide is out, the table is set,' because you can gather cockles, clams, etc.”

Sealaska Heritage Institute: Lecture: AN "ARCHIPELAGO OF CONNECTIONS" AND A LIVING HERITAGE | Sealaska Heritage · Jul 1, 2026