The ships will create opportunities for small business owners, wood carvers and other artisans, says the chief operations officer for Klawock Heenya.
Alaska Native Corporations
EPA official says agency is committed to cleaning up contaminated Native corporation land
Progress has been too slow, Carlton Waterhouse says.
Bea Kristovich, first woman traditional chief of Association of Village Council Presidents, has died
Kristovich was Athabascan and a member of the Native Village of Napaimute. She was born in Napaimute and lived most of her life in Bethel.
Larger cruise ships will start visiting Klawock in 2023
The ships will tie up at an existing dock on Klawock Island owned by Klawock Heenya Corporation.
Southeast Native Radio aired for just 16 years, but its voices live on in a new digital archive
Hundreds of hours of Southeast Native Radio broadcasts are now archived on the internet and available for anyone to listen to.
Petersburg assembly will send letter opposing Alaska Native lands bill
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.
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.
Sealaska shareholders to decide whether to remove blood quantum requirement
If the requirement is eliminated, Sealaska estimates that about 10,000 more people would be eligible to enroll.
Goldbelt is interested in financing Eaglecrest’s gondola and other expansion plans
City officials said Goldbelt Inc. is willing to put in up to $10 million for a slice of the gondola ticket sales. The particulars of a deal with Goldbelt would have to be negotiated.
Lingít activist recalls history of Indigenous women protecting the Tongass: ‘The momentum has only grown’
It has been 21 years since the 2001 Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest was first established. For the people involved in the battles between industry and subsistence, the tug-of-war over land use in the Tongass National Forest has been going on even longer.