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 Supreme Court explains ruling against redistricting board’s alleged gerrymandering | #alaska | #politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The Alaska Supreme Court is showing its might in efforts to keep partisan politics out of the redistricting process. For the second time in a little more than a year, the highest court in Alaska concluded that proposed redistricting maps in Eagle River and South Anchorage are unconstitutional, ruling Friday that […]
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