Indigenous Affairs
RSSAlaska Native and tribal affairs: governance, ANCSA regional corporations, subsistence rights, language, and cultural preservation. Spans roughly 20% of Alaska's population and every major policy domain the state touches.
Federal grant will test a Yup'ik healing framework against homelessness
Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness won $450,000 to serve Alaska Native households facing homelessness through case management and traditional Yup'ik healing practices through August 2027.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center
The Alaska Native Medical Center is now owned by the tribes it serves instead of the federal government — a first, and one with real money behind it.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago3 min read
Nine Southeast Alaska communities are getting naloxone vending machines
Naloxone is going into vending machines in nine Southeast Alaska communities you can reach only by boat or plane. None of the sites exist yet.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
BBNC shareholders have until Sept. 30 to return proxies
BBNC shareholders must complete an education and employment survey by Oct. 9 to help the corporation track job and training prospects.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Federal Medicare outreach grants send $174,880 to 10 Alaska tribal elder programs
Nine Alaska tribal elder programs will share $160,460 in federal Medicare enrollment grants running through August 2027, with the largest awards going to groups in Anchorage, Dillingham, and Palmer.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Federal money for elder abuse work, with a deadline next week
Alaska tribes and nonprofits can apply for federal grants of up to $750,000 to help older Alaskans facing abuse. Applications close Sept. 16.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
NOAA will stop briefing Alaska tribes before every council meeting
NOAA Fisheries will stop briefing Alaska tribes before every North Pacific council meeting, citing a substantial drop in staff since 2025.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
You can name your own price to see the Tlingit opera in Juneau
The closing performance of Juneau's Tlingit opera is entirely pay-as-you-can at the door, with limited pay-as-you-can seats at four other performances.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
The Tlingit & Haida tribal government opposes opening the Tongass
Tlingit & Haida opposes lifting Tongass road limits. Native corporations once cut more than half the region's timber, then left the business entirely.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago3 min read
BBNC Dillingham IT apprenticeship applications close Friday
BBNC is hiring one IT apprentice in Dillingham, applications close Friday, Sept. 4. The one-year role includes CompTIA certifications and requires BBNC or Choggiung shareholder status.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Bristol Bay Native Corporation is taking pitches for its December leadership forum
Bristol Bay Native Corporation is taking pitches through Oct. 2 for its December leadership forum — a corporate-led gathering, and not the region's only one.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Nome to host 2030 Inuit Circumpolar Council General Assembly
Nome will host the Inuit Circumpolar Council's 2030 General Assembly, drawing 400 delegates from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia to vote on Arctic sovereignty and food security.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Alaska's missing Indigenous list drops to 355, with suspicious cases unchanged
Alaska's count of missing Alaska Native and American Indian people fell by eight. None of the drop came from the cases nobody can explain.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago3 min read
Tanana Chiefs holds first culture camp for K-6 students
Tanana Chiefs Conference held its first culture camp for K-6 students in Fairbanks, teaching Athabascan languages, potlatch dancing and traditional skills, with plans to repeat annually.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3w ago2 min read
TCC will hold a November summit on what villages told it this summer
Tanana Chiefs Conference will hold a November summit on priorities its chief gathered during summer visits to seven Interior villages.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Anchorage police force falls hardest on Alaska Native residents
A review found Anchorage police use force disproportionately on Alaska Native residents, more than comparable cities — and likely overstated what they've fixed.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago4 min read
Doyon shareholders have until Oct. 5 to apply for four open board seats
Doyon Limited shareholders must apply by Oct. 5 for four board seats up for election at the March 2027 annual meeting.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Army plans to return four Alaska children's remains from Carlisle
The Army began disinterring four Alaska Native children from a Pennsylvania cemetery in September to return their remains to families, more than 120 years after they died at a federal boarding school.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 3w ago2 min read
UAF launches a fellowship to grow Alaska Native leaders in food and agriculture
UAF is launching a program to grow Alaska Native leaders in food, farming and natural resources — fields where Native people are badly underrepresented.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
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 AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Trust land near Control Lake would become a store, laundromat and fuel stop. Comments close Oct. 9.
Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office approved a negotiated sale of Control Lake land on Prince of Wales Island, skipping competitive bidding.
by Alaska News3w ago2 min read
Chugachmiut's Sugt'stun language game gets new gameplay footage
Nunaka means my village in Sugt'stun. It is also a free game teaching the language to children in a region where fluent speakers are dwindling.
by Alaska News3w ago2 min read
A Sugpiaq artist who works in fish skin is in residency in Sitka
Sugpiaq artist Larissa Kramer, who works in fish skin, resin and botanicals, gives two free talks in Sitka this month during a museum residency.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
SSA awards Anchorage's Koniag IT Systems $2 million for print work in Durham and Baltimore
A Koniag subsidiary in Anchorage will print and mail Social Security cards for the next year, under two federal contracts worth about $2.06 million.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
ICE is paying an Anchorage company to wire the 11th floor of a building in Washington
ICE is paying an Anchorage company $31,049 to wire the 11th floor of a federal building in Washington, D.C.
by Walter AlaskaNews4w ago2 min read
Two Bering Straits directors retire. One seat goes to shareholders, one to the board.
Two Bering Straits Native Corporation directors are retiring, but shareholders will only vote on one replacement seat because the other will be filled by board appointment under company bylaws.
by Bill AlaskaNews4w ago1 min read
A Fairbanks firm runs Boston's Moakley Courthouse under a $31.6 million agreement
A company owned by four villages on the Koyukuk River keeps a Boston federal courthouse running, gulls on the roof included. It just added a water station.
by Melinda Communities.News4w ago1 min read
Tlingit opera adds program guide and pre-show storyteller for audiences who do not speak the language
Alaska's first all-Tlingit opera adds program guides and a pre-show storyteller so non-speakers can follow the 1802-1804 Tlingit-Russian War told in the language itself, running Sept. 11-20 in Juneau.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Sealaska Heritage president says Tlingit-Russian War story belongs to all clans, not Kiks.ádi alone
Sealaska Heritage says the Tlingit-Russian War story belongs to all clans and Haidas, not the Kiks.ádi alone, ahead of the opera's September premiere in Tlingit.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Ketchikan tribe sues Forest Service over South Revilla logging near Ketchikan
Ketchikan Indian Community sued the Forest Service over logging that would cut 44% of winter deer habitat on Revillagigedo Island, threatening subsistence hunting.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Bering Straits shareholders will get $13.50 a share, its highest regular payout
Bering Straits Native Corporation shareholders will receive $13.50 per share this fall, the highest regular payout on record, with an extra $1,600 for eligible elders.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Ahtna closes Cantwell-area lands to the public for moose season
Ahtna, Incorporated closed its private lands near Cantwell to all public hunting and camping during moose season, though state-regulated hunting continues on public lands in the area.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
NANA opens the Hunter Building with five subsidiaries under one roof
NANA opens the Hunter Building in Anchorage on Friday, bringing five subsidiaries under one roof. They will cut a length of qupak instead of a ribbon.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
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.News1mo ago1 min read
Koniag takes board candidates to nine communities before proxy voting closes
Koniag will take board candidates to nine communities in September, six on Kodiak Island and three outside the region. Proxy voting closes Sept. 30.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
FAA awards $79,899 to Palmer-based Port Graham Development Corporation for Cleveland radar power work
A company owned by the tiny Alutiiq village of Port Graham won a federal contract to keep an air-traffic radar's backup power running in Cleveland, Ohio.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
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 AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Alaska Native youth die by suicide at five times the rate of White youth
Alaska Native youth died by suicide at more than five times the rate of White youth from 2016 to 2024, the state reported. The gap in attempts is wider.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Creators of first Tlingit opera take public questions Thursday in Juneau
Juneau can meet the team behind the first Tlingit opera in recorded history at a free panel Thursday, ahead of the Tlingit-language work's premiere next month.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
