The bill passed the state House and Senate last month.
Alaska Native Government & Policy
St. Paul toddler laid to rest with his mother after long fight to bring him home
The child, Joshua John Rukovishnikoff, was buried on top of his mother’s grave during a memorial service Saturday.
Alaska Senate approves bill formally recognizing Native tribes
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.
US boarding school investigative report released
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.
Former Tlingit & Haida chief justice appointed to national commission on missing and murdered Indigenous people
Michelle Jaagal Aat Demmert has been appointed to the Not Invisible Act Commission.
Native organizations win $35M grant to bring broadband home
It’s the largest grant awarded by the new federal Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.
Time is running out for the Alaska Legislature to pass tribal recognition bill
If the bill passes, the state of Alaska will have to start recognizing Alaska’s tribes as sovereign nations.
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.
Supreme Court declines to hear Metlakatla fisherman’s case challenging state fishing regulations
The legal fight centered on a Metlakatla man charged with illegally fishing in waters just outside the state’s only Native reservation.
Tlingit and Haida delegates reelect president, pass resolutions at Tribal Assembly
President Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson was reelected for a fifth term at the tribe.