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December 8, 2024

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Joaqlin Estus

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Salmon dry on a rack in Quinhagak, a Yup'ik village in Western Alaska, in July 2023. Salmon is a staple of the traditional Indigenous diet in Alaska and one of the main foods harvested through subsistence practices. A new rule made final by the Department of the Interior is aimed at boosting tribal participation in subsistence management. (Photo by Alice Bailey/University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Alaska Natives vote for major overhaul of subsistence laws

By Joaqlin Estus

Nov 4, 2024

Rosita Worl, President and CEO of Sealaska Heritage Institute (courtesy of Sealaska Heritage Institute).

Rosita Worl wins National Humanities Medal

By Joaqlin Estus

Oct 31, 2024

Daniel Johnson, Jr., who is Tlingit, greets Rear Admiral Mark Sucato upon his arrival in Angoon, in Southeast Alaska (Photo by Marc Lester, courtesy of the Anchorage Daily News).

US Navy formally apologizes for obliterating Angoon in 1882

By Joaqlin Estus

Oct 30, 2024

U.S. Congresswoman Mary Peltola (D), speaking at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, Oct. 18, 2024 (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)

Alaska Natives endorse ranked choice voting, Mary Peltola

By Joaqlin Estus

Oct 22, 2024

Outgoing president of the Alaska Federation of Natives Julie Kitka, Chugach Eskimo, at left and incoming AFN president Ben Mallott, Tlingit and Athabascan, at the AFN Convention, Oct. 17, 2024, in Anchorage. (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)

A fond farewell to Alaska Federation of Natives President Julie Kitka

By Joaqlin Estus

Oct 18, 2024

Audience watches a dance group perform at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention at the Dena'ina Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Oct. 2018 (Photo from video by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)

Thousands of Alaska Natives to gather in Anchorage

By Joaqlin Estus

Oct 11, 2024

Chief Reverend Trimble Gilbert, center, speaks after being presented a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship on Sept. 17, 2024, from U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, far right. Standing behind Gilbert is NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson. (Photo by Alex Troutman of Channel Films)

Indigenous artists honored for folk and traditional arts

By Joaqlin Estus

Oct 8, 2024

2024 McArthur Genius award recipient Wendy Red Star (Photo courtesy of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.)

Two Indigenous artists chosen for MacArthur genius awards

By Joaqlin Estus

Oct 2, 2024

A participant writes on a message board adorned with notes for loved ones who took their own lives during an Out of the Darkness Walk event organized by the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in Sawyer Point park, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, in Cincinnati. Hundreds of supporters gathered to draw attention to and raise funds for the prevention of suicide that ranks as the tenth leading cause of death in the United States overall according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

High Native suicide rates linked to insurance, income and internet service

By Joaqlin Estus

Sep 11, 2024

Candace Frank gets a red handprint pressed onto her face at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Rally in Juneau on May 5, 2022. (Lisa Phu / Alaska Beacon)

Alaska enacts law to reduce high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous persons

By Joaqlin Estus

Sep 6, 2024

Pictured: U.S. Small Business Administration headquarters in Washington, DC.

Alaska Native corporations threatened by changes to a federal program

By Joaqlin Estus

Sep 5, 2024

Left to right: Jackson Brossy, Assistant Administrator, Office of Native American Afairs, SBA; Erica Rivera, Deputy District Director, Alaska District Office, SBA; Kendra Conroy, Associate State Director, Alaska Small Business Development Center; Dilawar Syed, Deputy Administrator, SBA; Jon Bittner, Executive Director, Alaska Small Business Development Center; Steve Brown, District Director, SBA, Alaska District Office;Mark Ranneberger, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Administrator. (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)

Artificial Intelligence speeds business planning

By Joaqlin Estus

Aug 28, 2024

Brook Kristoviche (Courtesy Laguna Housing Development and Management Enterprise).

National tribal housing leader Brook Kristovich dies at age 61

By Joaqlin Estus

Aug 21, 2024

At left, Arlando Teller, Navajo, and James Crawford, Forest County Potawatomi, at the signing ceremony for a U..S. Department of Transportation compact agreement. Aug. 19, 2024 (Courtesy of Forest County Potawatomi).

Potawatomi tribe signs self-governing compact with transportation department

By Joaqlin Estus

Aug 20, 2024

A flooded house in Juneau, Alaska (Courtesy of National Weather Service).

Southeast Alaska tribe continues hands-on response to glacial flooding

By Joaqlin Estus

Aug 13, 2024

CANADIAN TRANSBOUNDARY Unuk River (Photo by U.S. Geological Survey)

Alaska tribes ask for international intervention on Canadian mining

By Joaqlin Estus

Aug 8, 2024

Juneau's Mendenhall Valley flood, Aug. 7, 2024 (Photo courtesy of City and Borough of Juneau)

Southeast Alaska tribe activates emergency response for flooded out tribal citizens

By Joaqlin Estus

Aug 7, 2024

In this Oct. 7, 2014, photo, Crawford Patkotak, above center, leads a prayer flanked by his sons Josiah, in green suspenders, Arnold, in white bib, and Samuel, fourth from right, after his crew landed a bowhead whale near Barrow, Alaska. Both revered and hunted by the Inupiat, the bowhead whale serves a symbol of tradition, as well as a staple of food. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Whalers seek international okay for continued harvest of bowhead whales

By Joaqlin Estus

Aug 7, 2024

Gold bar, (Photo coutesy of Wikipedia)

Village sues over Interior Alaska gold mine

By Joaqlin Estus

Jul 18, 2024

In 2021, after Evon Peter left a high-level position in academia, he and his family built their "biggest smokehouse ever,' and spent weeks catching, preparing, and smoking and drying salmon. (Photo by Nanieezh Peter, courtesy of Evon Peter)

Climate change affecting life in Alaska

By Joaqlin Estus

Jul 11, 2024

Maricopa County averages 110 days above 100 degrees Fahrenheit a year, and it recorded 119 heat-caused deaths in 2018, according to the Maricopa County Department of Public Health. (Photo by Greg Macelroy | Cronkite News)

Climate change hitting Arizona’s Indigenous peoples hard

By Joaqlin Estus

Jul 10, 2024

Ben Mallott was named president of the Alaska Federation of Natives on June 18, 2024. (Photo courtesy of AFN)

Alaska Federation of Natives has new president

By Joaqlin Estus

Jul 8, 2024

The voters who sued for extra time to count ballots mailed from the Navajo Nation cited a report that said a voter on the reservation has an average of 10 days less to consider and return a ballot than a voter in Sedona, because of differences in the level of postal service between the two places. (Photo by Upupa4me/Creative Commons)

Lack of postal workers, low turnout affect Alaska elections

By Joaqlin Estus

Jun 4, 2024

House for sale sign, (Courtesy of Creative Commons)

HUD 184 regulation changes won't affect borrowers

By Joaqlin Estus

May 23, 2024

US Dept of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service Alaska-Pacific RFC Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center

Ice jams cause flooding on mighty Kuskokwim River in Alaska

By Joaqlin Estus

May 14, 2024

Unidentified dancers, Celebration 2022 in Juneau, AK (Photo courtesy of Tlingit & Haida)

Alaska tribe signs historic child welfare agreement with Washington state

By Joaqlin Estus

May 7, 2024

Copper River looking south from the bridge near Chitina. July 22, 2006 (Photo by Doug Noon, courtesy of Wikimedia)

Alaska tribe seeks closure of popular fishing road that overlies buried ancestors

By Joaqlin Estus

Apr 30, 2024

HOMELESS YOUTH Covenant House Chief Program Officer Heidi Huppert at left shows the youth shelter's overflow sleeping area to Jeff, Hild, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the federal Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services, during a tour on April 24, 2024 (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)

$1 million grant to catch homeless youth further ‘upstream’

By Joaqlin Estus

Apr 30, 2024

The Spokane Tribe’s housing authority building in Wellpinit, Washington, shown here in January 2022, was one of nine public buildings to receive solar power in a project completed in 2019. Other buildings include the longhouse and a fish hatchery, and 23 homes for elders. (Photo by Erick Doxey for InvestigateWest)

$500 million for solar energy for tribal families

By Joaqlin Estus

Apr 24, 2024

Kobuk River in northwest Alaska (Photo by Neal Herbert, National Park Service)

Alaska river named a ‘most endangered’

By Joaqlin Estus

Apr 17, 2024

Panel on "Northern Indigenous Leadership: Our Future, Our ision for Success," at the Arctic Encounter Symposium on April 10, 2024 in Anchorage, AK (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)

Alaska Native vision for the future: Self determination

By Joaqlin Estus

Apr 16, 2024

Utah forward Alissa Pili, center, dontrols the ball while pressured by Gonzaga forward Yvonne Ejim (15) during the first half of a second-round college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament in Spokane, Washington, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)

Defeat on top of racial incident mars Alissa Pili’s NCAA experience

By Joaqlin Estus

Mar 26, 2024

2009 flood in Eagle, Alaska. (National Park Service photo)

Rebuilding after 2009 Yukon flood

By Joaqlin Estus

Mar 20, 2024

Condoms, HIV STI and syphilis prevention.

Syphilis: Deadly but easily treated disease on the rise

By Joaqlin Estus

Mar 19, 2024

Boat frame, food drying racks, houses, in Gambell, Alaska. The village of 681 (in 2010 census) is on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, 32 miles from the Russian Far East. The Chukotkan Mountains of Siberia are visible from the village. (Photo by 176th Wing Alaska Air National Guard, courtesy of Creative Commons)

More than $1 billion goes to Native American housing

By Joaqlin Estus

Mar 14, 2024

Veronica Homer Murdock

Veronica Homer ‘broke historic barriers’

By Joaqlin Estus

Mar 6, 2024

Ryan Redington, Inupiaq, whose grandfather Joe Redington Sr. helped start the Iditarod in 1973, mushes down Fourth Avenue during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race's ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, March 4, 2023. By Day 3, March 7, Redington was in second place. Redington took the lead on March 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Native champions head into 2024 Iditarod

By Joaqlin Estus

Mar 1, 2024

FUR RONDY ART FAIR: Arthur Kompkoff, Aleut of Tatitlik, Alaska, talks with customers at his table. About 125 vendors displayed their wares at the Charlotte Jensen Native Arts Market held during Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage, Alaska, Feb. 28, 2024 (photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)

Alaska Native arts market brightens Anchorage winter days

By Joaqlin Estus

Mar 1, 2024

The Stikine River Flats area in the Tongass National Forest as viewed from a helicopter on July 19, 2021. The Stikine River flows from British Columbia to Southeast Alaska. It is one of the major transboundary rivers impacted by mines in British Columbia. Alaska tribes and communities are seeking some new protection to avoid downstream impacts. (Photo by Alicia Stearns/U.S. Forest Service)

Alaska tribes appeal to United Nations over transboundary mining

By Joaqlin Estus

Feb 22, 2024

Julie Kitka, Dec.13, 2021, Anchorage, AK (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT).

Head of Alaska Federation of Natives Julie Kitka stepping down

By Joaqlin Estus

Feb 21, 2024

CANADIAN TRANSBOUNDARY Unuk River (Photo by U.S. Geological Survey)

Alaska tribes seek Canadian recognition

By Joaqlin Estus

Feb 1, 2024

N. Scott Momaday

Kiowa N. Scott Momaday, a giant of Native American literature, dead at 89

By Joaqlin Estus

Jan 29, 2024

Legendary journalist Gary Fife is shown at the microphone in this undated photo. Fife died Jan. 14, 2024, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 73. (File photo courtesy of Gary Fife)

Groundbreaking journalist Gary Fife dead at 73

By Joaqlin Estus

Jan 24, 2024

Fogs rolls onto Massacre Bay at Attu Island, Alaska. 2016 (Photo by Dena O'Dell, courtesy Creative Commons)

After 87 years at the Smithsonian museum, ancestors reburied on Aleutian Islands

By Joaqlin Estus

Jan 16, 2024

2023 ARCTIC REPORT CARD, ALASKA , ICE Under clear skies with blowing winds, crews in Point Hope, Alaska are at the shorefast sea ice edge for the spring whaling season. On 7 April 2023, Guy Norman Omnik reported “-11°F, mostly cloudy, north winds 10 mph. Poyuaqpanguu! – first [bowhead] whale sighting.” Photo credit: Guy Norman Omnik, courtesy of 2023 Arctic Report Card chapter on Nunaaqqit Savaqatigivlugich: Working With Communities to Observe the Arctic).

How 3 Indigenous women are leading the way on climate change

By Joaqlin Estus

Jan 8, 2024

SMOKEHOUSE COLLECTIVE Buckets of rosehips, crowberries, low-bush cranberries and blueberries that Deenaalee Chase-Hodgdon gathered in late summer. The climate crisis has deepened their desire to gather and store traditional foods like berries, which provide essential vitamins and nutrients for Alaska Native people. (Photo and caption by Emily Sullivan, High Country News)

Alaska Native mutual aid network tackles climate crisis

By Joaqlin Estus and High Country News

Jan 7, 2024

Jojo Bapteise Whiting, center, plays 23-year-old Bill in the award-winning film, "War Pony," being released July 28, 2023, in the United States. The film, co-directed by Elvis Presley's granddaughter, Riley Keough and Gina Gammell, won the Caméra d’Or for best first feature at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The film, based at Pine Ridge, features Whiting and LaDanian Crazy Thunder, who plays 12-year-old Matho. (Photo courtesy of Momentum Pictures)

Top ICT stories of 2023

By Joaqlin Estus

Dec 19, 2023

A help sign photographed in Anchorage, Alaska (Photo courtesy of Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness)

Anchorage pledges permanent housing amid record homeless deaths

By Joaqlin Estus

Dec 14, 2023

2023 ARCTIC REPORT CARD, ALASKA , ICE Under clear skies with blowing winds, crews in Point Hope, Alaska are at the shorefast sea ice edge for the spring whaling season. On 7 April 2023, Guy Norman Omnik reported “-11°F, mostly cloudy, north winds 10 mph. Poyuaqpanguu! – first [bowhead] whale sighting.” Photo credit: Guy Norman Omnik, courtesy of 2023 Arctic Report Card chapter on Nunaaqqit Savaqatigivlugich: Working With Communities to Observe the Arctic).

2023 Arctic Report Card calls for immediate action

By Joaqlin Estus

Dec 12, 2023

FACTORY TRAWLER ALASKA Deckhands rig a net as it is unloaded aboard the Northern Hawk factory trawler on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023 in the Bering Sea. (Loren Holmes / Anchorage Daily News)

Alaska Native, conservation groups support lawsuit over salmon

By Joaqlin Estus

Dec 7, 2023

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