The Lingít community was hit hard when the community church was shuttered in a move considered racist.
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US Supreme Court limits historic McGirt ruling
The Muscogee Nation called the ruling an “alarming step backward.”
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.
Berries, wildlife and toxic land: The continuing push to clean up contamination in rural Alaska
When a string of Yup’ik elders from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, all received the same cancer diagnoses, officials initially shrugged it off as a bizarre medical mystery. But not long after, a different village reported an increase in unusual cancer symptoms as well.
‘Being good relatives’: New program aims to increase collaboration between Alaska Native tribes and corporations
Corporations and tribes serve the same communities, but sometimes the two entities are at odds or struggle to coordinate over community decisions.
Alaska without ANCSA? Look to Metlakatla.
Metlakatla Indian Community is the only federal reserve in Alaska and is not a part of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Can Indigenous subsistence rights still be protected in Alaska?
Subsistence, a practice which past generations participated in without question, has become a complex legal puzzle — “a very unsettled and unsettling [legal landscape] for Alaska Native people,” according to one lawyer who has spent decades working on subsistence cases.