Alaska Native Communities
RSSTribal nonprofits, tribal health corporations, and Alaska Native cultural institutions, including AFN, AVCP, Kawerak, Tanana Chiefs, CITC, APIA, Bristol Bay Native Association, and Tlingit-Haida; tribal health systems such as SCF, YKHC, Norton Sound, and Maniilaq; and cultural institutions such as Sealaska Heritage and the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center. Covers federal grant awards, council resolutions, health program changes, language revitalization, and cultural preservation.
USDA awards UAF $499,976 to train 16 Alaska Native and rural fellows in food and agriculture fields
UAF received $499,976 from the USDA to train 16 Alaska Native and rural undergraduates in food, agriculture, and natural resources through 2029, addressing food insecurity in Native communities.
by Maggie AlaskaNews15h ago2 min readAI
TCC names Tiffany Yatlin employment and training case manager
Tanana Chiefs Conference hired Tiffany Yatlin as employment and training case manager to help Interior Alaska tribal members access job training and gear across 37 remote villages.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3h ago1 min readAI
None of Ketchikan's $1.65 million in landslide aid has been paid out
FEMA committed $1.65 million for Ketchikan's 2024 landslides. A year later none of it has been paid out, and the window to spend it closes Sept. 30.
by Walter AlaskaNews19h ago1 min readAI
Chugachmiut is hiring a lead for nearly $7 million in Indigenous education work
The Chugach region's Native nonprofit is seeking a contractor to lead nearly $7 million in Indigenous education work, from language revival to youth programs.
by Melinda Communities.News1w ago1 min readAI
A young weaver 3D-printed his own form to make a cedar bark hat
A Bartlett High grad wove himself a cedar bark hat using a form he designed and 3D-printed at a tribal lab — work that led to an internship and a paid job.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Victor Joseph receives a national tribal health advocacy award
Victor Joseph, the Tanana Chiefs Conference's top administrator, received the National Indian Health Board's inaugural Sovereignty in Action Award for advocacy.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
AFN gives delegates another week to file convention resolutions
AFN gave delegates another week to file convention resolutions, now due Aug. 28. Divisive issues go to the Board rather than to the delegates.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Tanana Chiefs wins federal grant for suicide prevention in 15 villages
Of 122 youth referred to Tanana Chiefs behavioral health last year, 76 were admitted. A new federal grant funds suicide prevention in 15 Interior villages.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Money for Alaska Native education keeps flowing, but no new competition has opened in nearly two years
Money for Alaska Native education keeps reaching current grantees, but no new competition has opened since late 2023, leaving no clear door for new applicants.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Tanana Chiefs benefits staff come to McGrath on Wednesday
Tanana Chiefs Conference benefits staff visit McGrath on Aug. 19 to meet families and explain programs for employment, cash assistance, and education in person.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
APIA is hiring two paid interns in Anchorage and Sand Point
APIA is hiring two paid interns, in Anchorage and Sand Point, for hands-on work in employment and social services for Alaska Native communities.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3w ago1 min readAI
Six graduate a Tanana Chiefs apprenticeship built to staff Interior clinics
Six apprentices finished Tanana Chiefs Conference's yearlong clinical training in Fairbanks — the first cohort where everyone who started made it through.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3w ago1 min readAI
Tanana's rebuilt village clinic has opened
Tanana's village health clinic has reopened after a tribe-led rehabilitation of a building that needed structural repair, one of nearly 40 clinics TCC runs in the Interior.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago1 min readAI
20 Alaska Native students are training to bring health care home to rural communities
Twenty Alaska Native students are training as nurses, midwives and doctors on tribal scholarships — many aiming to bring care home to rural communities.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4w ago2 min readAI
41.3 million for Alaska Native education is freed up after a month's delay
Fifteen Alaska organizations will share $41.3 million in Native education grants that came a month late, freed up after Sen. Murkowski pressed the education secretary directly.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4w ago2 min readAI
The DV hotline's non-English access rule is moving out of regulation
The rule requiring the domestic violence hotline to serve non-English speakers is leaving binding regulation for weaker grant notices, over tribal objection.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Deadline TONIGHT for Park Service tribal heritage preservation grants
Alaska tribes, Native villages and corporations have until 7:59 p.m. Monday to apply for Park Service grants preserving oral histories and sacred places.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Four TCC employees selected for ANTHC leadership programs
Four Tanana Chiefs Conference employees selected for competitive nine-month leadership programs run by Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to develop skills across tribal healthcare.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Pioneer Park main shelter closes mornings July 23-24 for volunteer work
Pioneer Park's main shelter closes 9 a.m. to noon Thursday and Friday, July 23-24, while volunteers including Outer Coast do maintenance work. The park itself stays open.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
AFN opens Co-Chair nominations ahead of October convention vote
Alaska Federation of Natives opens nominations for a new co-chair to be elected October 24, with applications due September 25.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
IHS picks Sitka and Bethel tribal health groups for first-ever elder care construction program
Indian Health Service picked Sitka and Bethel tribal health groups to build and expand skilled nursing facilities, the first time the federal program has funded long-term elder care in Alaska.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Federal grant would re-launch Alaska Native elder resource center; deadline July 27
The federal Administration on Aging is offering $215,000 annually for three years to re-establish a resource center for Alaska Native elders, with applications due July 27.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Alaska runs on federal money, and a proposed rule change has people worried
Alaska leans on federal money for basics — water plants, shelters, emergency response — and nonprofits, cities, and Tribes warn a proposed federal rule change could make that funding less reliable.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
Steel and pilings shrink Juneau's Oak Landing to a third its size
Steel doubled and the ground needs 100-foot pilings, so Juneau's Oak Landing is shrinking to a third its size — but the welcome center, shops and seawalk survive.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
How a borrowed good-luck charm became Bering Strait ivory art
A grinning good-luck charm invented Outside became a Bering Strait ivory art form — thanks to master carver Happy Jack, who made the borrowed Billiken his own.
by Bill AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
At a remote Interior camp, sobriety is celebrated the Athabascan way
Old Minto, a remote Interior camp that roots addiction recovery in Athabascan tradition, holds its Annual Sobriety Potlatch July 23 — celebrating sobriety the way the culture always has.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min readAI
In Koyuk, old fuel tanks left petroleum in the ground. Now someone will measure it.
Two old fuel tank farms left petroleum in the ground in Koyuk, part of a statewide legacy of thousands of contaminated sites. A federal grant will assess how bad it is.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readAI
Fairbanks sets aside a day to care for its Alaska Native Elders
On July 13, volunteers across Fairbanks spend the day helping Alaska Native Elders with yard work, painting, tech, and home repairs — the community caring for its own.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readAI
Kawerak hauls 4,000 pounds of e-waste out of Nome
Nome shipped 4,000 pounds of old electronics to the Lower 48 — because rural Alaska's unlined landfills can't safely hold the poison inside them, so the only option is to haul it out.
by Alaska Newsadded 2mo ago2 min readAI
The ancestral parcels behind a quiet land questionnaire in Port Graham, Nanwalek
Families around Port Graham and Nanwalek are being asked how their Native allotments — ancestral parcels won by proving generations of use — should be managed. The deadline is Aug. 31.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readAI
Three new Community Health Aides head to Interior Alaska villages
Tanana Chiefs Conference recognized three new Community Health Aides for Tetlin, Dot Lake, and the Upper Tanana — often the closest thing to a doctor for miles.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readAI
Southcentral Foundation treats traditional food as medicine at a free Anchorage gathering
Southcentral Foundation hosts a free two-day Traditional Foods Gathering July 27 and 28 in Anchorage, treating Alaska Native harvests as medicine and health, not just culture.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readAI
Interior youth learned to tan hide and to save a life
Moose hide tanning, fiddle dancing, CPR, and naloxone — TCC's youth summit taught Interior kids their traditions and how to save a life, all in one weekend.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readAI
TCC hands its lobbying reins to a familiar face: Joy Huntington
TCC's new government affairs director already knows the building — Joy Huntington used to be the consortium's lobbyist in Juneau.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readAI
Interior Alaska Native groups set aside a day to repair elders' homes — and couldn't meet the demand
Bit off more than we could chew, how about you?
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min readAI
Alaska Native tribes have month to apply for federal energy grants
Alaska Native tribes have until July 16 to apply for federal energy grants of up to $450,000 to build the legal and business structures needed to develop their own power systems and reduce reliance on expensive diesel fuel.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min readAI
Doyon and Tanana Chiefs warn of rising fuel costs in Interior
Doyon and Tanana Chiefs Conference warned that shipping disruptions are raising fuel costs in Interior Alaska, urging villages to order early during the brief barge season before rivers freeze.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readAI
House passes Alaska Native walrus-ivory protection bill
House passed legislation allowing Alaska Native artists to sell walrus-ivory handicrafts nationwide, overriding state bans that had criminalized traditional art protected under federal marine-mammal law.
by Alaska Newsadded 2mo ago2 min readAI
Juneau arts council offers $2,000 for new logo design
Juneau Arts and Humanities Council is offering $2,000 for a new logo design, with submissions due July 1, 2026.
by Alaska Newsadded 3mo ago1 min readAI