Alaska Natives, advocates hail state's new restrictions aimed at helping chum salmon recover

The Alaska Board of Fisheries has announced a reduction in fishing opportunity for chum salmon by 30 per cent in southwest ...
KSHB Kansas City

Alaska Native tribes fighting to overturn laws criminalizing their traditional way of life

In a place where mountains are the only skyscrapers and the road to get home can’t be found on GPS, you’ll find the tribal ways that have survived for thousands of years. “We don't have to go to the ...
Homeland Security Today

Native American and Alaska Native Federal Contracting Preferences: What the Law Provides and What’s Changing

Federal procurement law gives Native American tribes, Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs), and certain other Native organizations significant contracting preferences. These policies are rooted in the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

2 Alaska tribes sue psychiatric hospital, director for holding foster children indefinitely

Two southwest Alaska tribal governments are fighting to prevent foster children from being held at Anchorage, Alaska-based North Star Behavioral Health Center for indefinite periods of time, according ...