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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)
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Alaska Natives vote for major overhaul of subsistence laws

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

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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A fond farewell to Alaska Federation of Natives President Julie Kitka

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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Indigenous artists honored for folk and traditional arts

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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Alaska enacts law to reduce high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous persons

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
Pictured: U.S. Small Business Administration headquarters in Washington, DC.
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Alaska Native corporations threatened by changes to a federal program

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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Artificial Intelligence speeds business planning

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
A flooded house in Juneau, Alaska (Courtesy of National Weather Service).
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Southeast Alaska tribe continues hands-on response to glacial flooding

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
CANADIAN TRANSBOUNDARY Unuk River (Photo by U.S. Geological Survey)
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Alaska tribes ask for international intervention on Canadian mining

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
Juneau's Mendenhall Valley flood, Aug. 7, 2024 (Photo courtesy of City and Borough of Juneau)
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Southeast Alaska tribe activates emergency response for flooded out tribal citizens

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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Whalers seek international okay for continued harvest of bowhead whales

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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Climate change affecting life in Alaska

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
Ben Mallott was named president of the Alaska Federation of Natives on June 18, 2024. (Photo courtesy of AFN)
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Alaska Federation of Natives has new president

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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Lack of postal workers, low turnout affect Alaska elections

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
House for sale sign, (Courtesy of Creative Commons)
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HUD 184 regulation changes won't affect borrowers

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
US Dept of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service Alaska-Pacific RFC Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center
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Ice jams cause flooding on mighty Kuskokwim River in Alaska

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
Valerie Nurr’araluk Davidson, Yup’ik,  keynote speaker at the National Indian Health Board annual conference held in Anchorage, Alaska. May 2, 2023. (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT).
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Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium replaces Valerie Nurr’araluk Davidson

By ICT
Alaska Bureau
Unidentified dancers, Celebration 2022 in Juneau, AK (Photo courtesy of Tlingit & Haida)
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Alaska tribe signs historic child welfare agreement with Washington state

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
Copper River looking south from the bridge near Chitina. July 22, 2006 (Photo by Doug Noon, courtesy of Wikimedia)
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Alaska tribe seeks closure of popular fishing road that overlies buried ancestors

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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$1 million grant to catch homeless youth further ‘upstream’

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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$500 million for solar energy for tribal families

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
Kobuk River in northwest Alaska (Photo by Neal Herbert, National Park Service)
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Alaska river named a ‘most endangered’

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
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)
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Alaska Native vision for the future: Self determination

By Joaqlin Estus
Alaska Bureau
Sled dogs mush along Cordova Street during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race on Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Anchorage, Alaska. This year the deaths of three dogs during the race — and five more during training — have refocused attention on the sport’s darker side and raised questions about the ethics of asking animals to pull a heavy sled for hundreds of miles in subzero temperatures. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)
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Mushing hall of famer suggests more rest for Iditarod dogs

By Richard Arlin Walker
Alaska Bureau