Alaska Native Government & Policy

Aug 16 2018
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Pauline Beebe was among the first to enter the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center on Saturday, August 11, 2018, in Quinhagak. (Photo by Katie Basile/KYUK)

Nunalleq Culture And Archaeology Center opens in Quinhagak

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Arts & Culture, History, Southwest

Quinhagak’s new museum is home to 60,000 artifacts, the largest collection of pre-contact Yup’ik artifacts in the world. The opening was the culmination of nine years of back-breaking work, and the result of a unique partnership between Quinhagak’s village corporation and archaeologists.

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Aug 11 2018
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The consultation held in the Ketchikan Public Library on August, 3, 2018. (Photo by Liam Niemeyer/KRBD)

Native tribes in Ketchikan tell Interior Department to keep land-trust program

By | Alaska Native Government & Policy, Federal Government, Southeast

Department of the Interior officials have traveled across the state to talk with tribes in a series of consultations this summer to reconsider land-trust rules in Alaska. Several people attended a consultation Friday afternoon at the Ketchikan Public Library.

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Jul 25 2018
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Kake, in central Southeast Alaska, lost three jobs when Sealaska subsidiary Managed Business Solutions closed its satellite office last month. (Courtesy Alaska Community Database)

Kake tribal government seeks return of items from remote grave site

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Arts & Culture, Federal Government, History, Juneau, Southeast, Spirit

The Organized Village of Kake seeks to bring back a mummified infant and other items taken in 1961 from a cave on Entrance Island near Hobart Bay, about 70 miles south of Juneau.

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