Alaska Native Government & Policy

Apr 04 2019
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VAWA bill would create limited jurisdiction for five Alaska tribes

By | Alaska Native Government & Policy, Crime & Courts, Federal Government, Politics, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence

The Violence Against Women Act renewal bill would allow up to five Alaska tribes territorial jurisdiction in their villages to prosecute domestic abuse and other crimes, whether the accused is a tribal member or not.

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Apr 03 2019
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The MV Malaspina sits at the dock in Auke Bay, near Juneau, as the MV LeConte pulls away from the dock early March 28, 2019. Both ships are part of the Alaska Marine Highway System.

Aboard Alaska’s endangered ferries, passengers fear a ‘giant step back in time’

By | Alaska Native Government & Policy, Alaska's Energy Desk, Community, Economy, Politics, Southeast, State Government, Transportation

Step aboard the MV LeConte, where a single trip last week showed how Southeast Alaska residents have knit the state’s ferries into their lives — and how they would adapt if the ships stopped running.

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Mar 27 2019
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Bernadette Demientieff, director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, waits to testify at a U.S. House hearing on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Which Native voices? On ANWR, lawmakers practice selective listening.

By | Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Arctic, Economy, Energy & Mining, Environment, Federal Government, Interior, Nation & World, North Slope, Politics, Subsistence, Wildlife

Rep. Don Young told his colleagues to disregard the anti-drilling Gwich’in witnesses, while pro-development Iñupiaq witnesses accused Democrats of erasing them from the land that’s been their home for centuries.

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Mar 18 2019
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Liz Cornejo explains the Palmer Project at a public forum focused on mining and water on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Cornejo is vice president of community and external affairs for Canadian company Constantine Metal Resources Limited. (Photo by Daysha Eaton, KHNS)

Court rules against Klukwan, conservation groups in mine exploration lawsuit

By | Alaska Native Government & Policy, Crime & Courts, Energy & Mining, Environment, Federal Government, Local Government, Southeast, State Government

A federal court ruled Friday that the Bureau of Land Management does not have to consider future impacts of mine development before approving activities for mineral exploration in the Chilkat Valley.

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Mar 18 2019
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New House Tribal Affairs Committee aims to advance state relationships

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Southeast, Southwest, State Government

Because the Alaska state government’s relationship with tribes cuts across many different state departments, House lawmakers decided to have one committee that would attend to the full range of tribal affairs.

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Mar 13 2019
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The Tongass National Forest near Wrangell, Alaska, 2016.

The Alaska Roadless Rule decision is moving along. Some tribal governments say it’s moving too fast.

By | Alaska Native Government & Policy, Alaska's Energy Desk, Economy, Environment, Federal Government, Southeast, Subsistence, Timber, Transportation

The Organized Village of Kake says the timeline has felt rushed for a decision that could have a major impact on rural Southeast Alaska.

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Mar 12 2019
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Cash-strapped state of Alaska takes aim at North Slope government’s oil money

By | Alaska Native Government & Policy, Alaska's Energy Desk, Climate Change, Energy & Mining, Local Government, North Slope, Politics, State Government

A proposal by Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy would strip the North Slope Borough of its power to collect nearly $400 million in property taxes from oil companies each year. The idea gets at a longstanding question: How much money from oil should stay in the North Slope, where it’s pumped from the ground?

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Mar 07 2019
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Robert Melovidov holds up fur seal meat that he’s preparing to cook in his home on St. Paul island in January. Unangan people on St. Paul like Melovidov have been pushing the federal government for more than a decade for more freedom to harvest the fur seals they share the island with.

For decades, the government stood between the Unangan people and the seals they subsist on. Now that’s changing.

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Alaska's Energy Desk, Aleutians, Arts & Culture, History, Subsistence

On remote St. Paul Island, federal rules have restricted subsistence hunting for years, forcing residents to buy expensive groceries. New rules could take effect soon, but opponents worry about a declining local seal population.

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