Pit River Land Transfer Moves Forward More Than Half a Century After Four Corners Confrontation
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee has advanced legislation returning 557 acres to tribal trust. The acreage is modest. Its history is not. On a…
Native Forward Puts $40 Million Into Permanent Fund for Generations of Native Students
Faced with substantial unmet financial need among Native students, Native Forward could…
Closure of Osage Language School Opens Deeper Dispute Over Money, Government and Cultural Responsibility
Daposka Ahnkodapi closed almost overnight after the Osage Nation executive declared a…
Prediction Markets Put Tribal Gaming Sovereignty Into a New Federal Jurisdiction Fight
Sports-event contracts sold as federally regulated financial products have created a question…
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Federal Grant Overhaul Replaces Long-Running SEDS Program With New Native Economic Priorities
The Administration for Native Americans has opened $27.5 million in new funding, but replacing the decades-old…
Eklutna Gaming Hall Expansion Shows Native Business Under Pressure in Alaska
The Chin’an Gaming Hall has added space, machines and jobs, but its growth comes while Alaska…
Pit River Land Transfer Moves Forward More Than Half a Century After Four Corners Confrontation
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee has advanced legislation returning 557 acres to tribal trust. The acreage…
Prediction Markets Put Tribal Gaming Sovereignty Into a New Federal Jurisdiction Fight
Sports-event contracts sold as federally regulated financial products have created a question Congress can no longer…
Umatilla Tribes Move Closer to Full Civil Jurisdiction on Reservation
Oregon’s proclamation is part of a longer return of authority after decades of state involvement under…
Closure of Osage Language School Opens Deeper Dispute Over Money, Government and Cultural Responsibility
Daposka Ahnkodapi closed almost overnight after the Osage Nation executive declared a financial emergency. The disagreement…
Alaska Native Leaders Say Totem Poles Are Not Tourist Props
Tlingit & Haida, Ketchikan Indian Community and the Alaska Native Heritage Center are calling for respect…
Native Forward Puts $40 Million Into Permanent Fund for Generations of Native Students
Faced with substantial unmet financial need among Native students, Native Forward could have spent its $50…
Mark Cruz Takes Charge of Indian Health Service With a 30 Percent Vacancy Rate and Decades-Old Facilities Backlog
The Klamath Tribes citizen has now been confirmed to lead IHS. His confirmation testimony provides unusually…
Homeless at Home: Anchorage, Alaska’s, Alaska Native Homeless Issue
Alaska Native people are profoundly overrepresented among Alaska’s homeless population. Behind the statistics are people whose…
When Salmon Do Not Come Back Home
Alaska was built on salmon. Now, in parts of Western and Interior Alaska, the fish are…
Rare-Earth Mine Near Mato Tipila Moves Into Federal Review With Public Comments Due This Month
A proposed rare-earth project promises jobs and strategic minerals, while the federal review identifies possible effects…
Kawerak Says Chum Bycatch Action Falls Short for Western Alaska Tribe
Federal fishery managers have approved a new chum salmon bycatch limit, but tribal advocates say it…
Unopposed Chickasaw Candidates Set to Retain Legislative and Supreme Court Seats
Four legislative seats and one Supreme Court seat drew no challengers after filing closed for the…
Impermanence
One of the most striking things I’ve witnessed not just in the years I worked for Cruise West, but over my entire lifetime, is the changing landscape due to the retreat of glaciers. When I was a kid, we would often drive the 55 miles down along Turnagain Arm, south…
Ruff
On one of the rare trips when there were some kids on board, one of the boys was incredibly keen to know everything there was to know about the different land mammals that survived in the arctic. You couldn’t help but feel a little bit sorry for the kids on…
The Reluctant Birder
It would be fair to say that birders have somewhat of a publicity problem in the general populace. Granted, there are many, many people who are fascinated by birds and may learn quite a bit about birds, but, as with anything, one’s interest in birds can be taken to extremes.…
The Sandpiper & The Sea
One of the realities of spending a great deal of time in nature is that one does glimpse, on a regular basis, how cruel nature can seem. Granted, cruel is the word we might use, but that is anthropomorphizing this issue quite a bit. Nature is simply nature, and everything…
Sometimes Island
I am remembering me the person I used to be long ago Sometimes Island sometimes you sometimes the wild berries and the pushki trials before technology before buildings and boulevards the beaches where we dreamed the love we made and left behind on beds of moss in the underbrush, where…
When You Return
When you return, your hair will be longer and your Alutiiq skin darkened from the sun’s reflection shining off the Pacific Ocean. “Ukalah!” I will hear you shout as the boat pulls into the unloading dock. You’ll be standing on the deck of the Gallant Girl in worn out deck…
