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It’s sunny and minus 8 degrees on Dec. 20 in Akiak, Alaska, and Mike Williams Sr. is heading out to fish.
He needs to help feed his son Mike Jr.’s dog team as they prepare to compete in March in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
The biggest challenge in recent years for rural Alaska mushers has been climate change. Warmer temperatures have required some mushers to travel farther from home — and more time away from family and work — in order to find ideal training conditions.
The latest challenge: rising costs. READ MORE — Richard Arlin Walker, Special to ICT
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ICT is growing more and more. Four people have joined the team in their respective positions, some returning as permanent employees and some new to the organization.
Additionally there will be one significant partnership with Lee Enterprises this year. Two of the news chain’s outlets will hire a reporter that will be shared with ICT at the Rapid City Journal in South Dakota, and the Tulsa World in Oklahoma.
The partnership was designed to increase the coverage of Indigenous communities in both regions.
“We are so pleased to begin this partnership,” said Karen Michel, Ho-Chunk, president of IndiJ Public Media and ICT. “This is about creating opportunity. We need more Native journalists in order to tell a richer story. And by partnering with existing newsrooms we can serve our readers better and faster.” READ MORE — ICT
Rep. Llew Jones on Monday introduced a bill that would change the way applicants draw money from the Blackfeet Tribe Water Rights Compact mitigation account.
Specifically, House Bill 141 would provide a revised statutory appropriation and establish an effective date of July 1, 2023. It has a fiscal note of $2 million and came at the request of the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.
Signed in 2016 by President Barack Obama, the Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act allocated $471 million in federal funding for improvements to watersheds and job creation for members of the Blackfeet Nation. The settlement focused on improved water usage on the reservation for supplies, irrigation, fisheries, recreation and other things.
Jones, a Republican representing Conrad, said the original language of the compact did not include certain appropriations. He said the language gaps have affected people and organizations in Pondera County, for example, who looked to the fund to offset impacts of the compact. READ MORE — Missoulian
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