Alaska Native Government & Policy

The bill passed the state House and Senate last month.

The child, Joshua John Rukovishnikoff, was buried on top of his mother’s grave during a memorial service Saturday.

Alaska’s state government would formally recognize all of Alaska’s 229 federally recognized tribes under legislation passed Friday by the state Senate in a 15-0 vote.

The findings show the federal Indian boarding school system consisted of at least 408 federal schools across 37 states and roughly 53 different schools had been identified with marked or unmarked burial sites.

Michelle Jaagal Aat Demmert has been appointed to the Not Invisible Act Commission. 

It’s the largest grant awarded by the new federal Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.

If the bill passes, the state of Alaska will have to start recognizing Alaska’s tribes as sovereign nations.

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.

The legal fight centered on a Metlakatla man charged with illegally fishing in waters just outside the state’s only Native reservation.

President Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson was reelected for a fifth term at the tribe.