The student council is calling on the Skagway School Board to make the attendance policy more inclusive by allowing students to take seven subsistence days per semester.
Subsistence
AFN rallies against Safari Club International federal subsistence management proposals
The Alaska Federation of Natives has launched an aggressive campaign to fight the Safari Club International’s effort to weaken the influence of the federal government on subsistence management in Alaska and restore state authority over its regulation. AFN says only the federal government can defend Alaska’s rural priority for subsistence, and the Safari Club proposal threatens those protections.
U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear case that could have upended Alaska subsistence fishing
Changes to federal subsistence management are still possible through a newly started regulation review process.
Alaska opens two special hunts to aid Southwest Alaska residents affected by typhoon
For many state agencies, it’s been ‘all hands on deck’ to help victims of ex-Typhoon Halong.
As mining project moves forward, Southeast Alaska tribes say Canada denies their human rights
When hooligan start running in Southeast Alaska at the end of winter, the Wagner family heads to the mouth of the Unuk River. Tazia Wagner steers the skiff as her uncle throws a weighted cast net into the muddy water. He hauls up a net full of wriggling, oily little fish. They’re aiming to fill…
Yukon River communities balance conservation, survival amid near-total salmon fishing closures
This year, there will once again be little-to-no opportunity for communities along the Western Alaska river to harvest any salmon.
Suit asserting Metlakatla tribal members’ right to fish off-reservation heads for trial
The case could have broad implications for fishermen throughout Southeast Alaska.
Peltola sponsors a bill to limit salmon bycatch. The pollock industry calls it ‘unworkable.’
Peltola acknowledges that her bills are unlikely to become law this year, but she says they elevate the national discourse on fish.
For one Utqiaġvik family, spring bowhead whaling marks an important milestone
For Inupiat communities on the North Slope, bowhead whaling is a central part of spring. But climate change is adding an extra element of uncertainty to the whaling season.
Scientists, Alaska Native leaders say the Arctic faces a growing crisis from plastic waste
The authors of a new report will join representatives from more than 180 other countries to negotiate a United Nations plastics treaty.