Alaska
Alaska Native leaders call for legal overhaul to protect traditional fish harvests | #alaska | #politics
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Google-News-Wire
- February 10, 2024
- Alaska Federation of Natives
- Association of Village Council Presidents
- Bob Anderson
- Congressman
- congressmen
- council
- Curt Chamberlain
- democrats
- Department of the Interior
- economy
- elections
- governor
- Heather Kendall Miller
- Jonathan Samuelson
- Julie Kitka
- Kuskokwim River
- Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
- mayor
- Native American Rights Fund
- Nicole Borromeo
- Patty Sullivan
- politics
- president
- republican
- salmon
- senator
- Subsistence
The crash of salmon stocks in Western Alaska’s Kuskokwim River has sparked a bitter court fight between the federal and state governments, and now Alaska Native leaders are calling for congressional action to ensure that Indigenous Alaskans have priority for harvests when stocks are scarce. The conflict has gripped this year’s Alaska Federation of Natives […]
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Alaska
Alaska’s Native and political leaders praise Supreme Court decision on Indian Child Welfare Act | #alaska | #politics
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Google-News-Wire
- December 25, 2023
- Alaska Federation of Natives
- Alaska Natives
- Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska
- Congressman
- congressmen
- council
- democrats
- economy
- elections
- governor
- Indian Child Welfare Act
- Lisa Murkowski
- Mary Peltola
- mayor
- politics
- president
- republican
- senator
- Treg Taylor
On Thursday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act in a 7-2 decision. The ruling preserves a 35-year-old law intended to address the harm caused by the federal government’s boarding school program by prioritizing the placement of Alaska Native and American Indian children into tribal homes. Alaska Native […]
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