Alaska Natives, advocates hail state's new restrictions aimed at helping chum salmon recover

The Alaska Board of Fisheries has announced a reduction in fishing opportunity for chum salmon by 30 per cent in southwest ...
Yahoo

Alaska is “Ground Zero” for Indian Boarding Schools

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) and Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community) will travel to Anchorage, Alaska, on Sunday, October 22, 2023 to ...
Homeland Security Today

Native American and Alaska Native Federal Contracting Preferences: What the Law Provides and What’s Changing

Federal procurement law gives Native American tribes, Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs), and certain other Native organizations significant contracting preferences. These policies are rooted in the ...
KYUK

National series highlights Alaska MMIP crisis, questions of justice for Alaska Native people

The documentary series “Lost Women of Alaska” now airing on HBO examines the crisis through the investigation of an Anchorage ...
Native News Online

StrongHearts Native Helpline Marks 9 Years of Serving Survivors, Receiving More than 85,000+Calls, Chats and Texts

StrongHearts Native Helpline is celebrating nine years of addressing domestic and sexual violence in Native communities. Since its launch, the organization has received more than 85,000 contacts ...
Alaska Public Media

Federal judge says Alaska tribes may put land into trust, a step toward 'Indian country' here

Tlingit tribal members march down Front Street in downtown Juneau on June 8, 2024, during Celebration 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) A federal judge in Anchorage has ruled that the ...
Alaska Public Media

Racial disparities persist in Alaska's prisons

Inmates at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in 2018. (Will Mader/KTOO) A national prison research group that tracks inmate populations says American Indians and Alaska Natives, next to Black people ...
Washington Examiner

American Indians, Alaska Natives account for 1 percent of all U.S. businesses

American Indian- and Alaska Native-owned firms accounted for 0.9 percent of the nation’s 23 million businesses in 2002 with $26.9 billion in revenue, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S.
EurekAlert!

American Indians and Alaska Natives have disproportionately higher rates of CVD

DALLAS, May 28, 2020 -- Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects American Indians and Alaska Natives at approximately three times the rate of white Americans and is closely linked to the disproportionately high ...
Center for American Progress

Sequestering Opportunity for American Indians and Alaska Natives

The latest poverty numbers highlight the dramatically negative effects that federal funding cuts are having on the AI/AN population. This month, our country celebrates both Thanksgiving and Native ...
Seattle Times

‘Alaska Native Resilience’ documents the power of sovereignty during WWII

Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from the book “Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II,” by Holly Miowak Guise. The book was published in July by the University of Washington Press ...