Tribes can exert jurisdiction over allotments granted to individual Natives, the department’s head attorney said on Feb. 1.
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On Kake Day, Alaska Quakers to apologize for forced assimilation and donate funds for healing center
The Quakers are giving Kake $92,000 to help fund a healing center, along with a formal, public apology for harm they caused to Kake in the 1900s.
Citizens hide from active shooters as Alaska fails to deliver on 2019 promise of village troopers
It took Alaska State Troopers 110 days to catch one of three people accused of an ambush in Russian Mission on July 28. Neighbors said they slept with rifles under their beds and shotgun shells on the windowsill, ready for anything.
Dunleavy administration loses lawsuit over Kake subsistence hunt
The Southeast tribal government in Kake had organized the deer and moose harvest early in the pandemic out of concerns about food security.
Alaska State Troopers arrest 1 following reports of shots fired in Kake
Tribal president Joel Jackson says the all-clear has been issued and people are venturing outdoors again.
White House moves to reinstate Roadless Rule for Tongass
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has published a regulatory notice that it plans to “repeal or replace” a Trump administration regulation from October that removed Roadless Rule restrictions in the Tongass.
Tongass holds more than 40% of all carbon stored by national forests
Analysis by the Woodwell Climate Research Center found that the Tongass National Forest holds 44% of all the carbon stored by the United States’ national forests.
State of Alaska, cities, business groups file to defend exemption of Tongass from Roadless Rule
Other parties defending the exemption include the city of Craig, statewide and Southeast chambers of commerce, electric utilities, shipping companies and resource development advocacy groups.
Alaska Marine Highway proposes lean summer schedule; new ferries to stay tied to the dock
“We need to get more ships in the water,” said Sen. Bert Stedman. He’s concerned about long gaps despite lawmakers’ efforts to fully fund the marine highway system.
In lawsuit, groups ask that ‘Roadless Rule’ protections be put back in place for the Tongass
A coalition including environmental groups, tribes and fishermen filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to restore Roadless Rule protections to 9 million acres of Tongass National Forest.