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The notice is among USDA's efforts to remove barriers to service for tribal governments, citizens, and tribal nations USDA encourages nominations from federally recognized tribes, Alaska Native Corporations, tribal organizations that are arms and instrumentalities of tribes or democratically elected by their community, or national or regional organizations with expertise in tribal food and agriculture issues. The nomination period will be open through August 14, 2023. Specific information a...

Washington, D.C. (KINY) - Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) and Representative Pete Stauber (R-Minnesota), Thursday issued statements on H.R. 4748.

Washington, D.C. (KINY) - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), Thursday issued statements on legislation that would allow the Alaska Native communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Tenakee to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA).

Expert witnesses testified in court Wednesday that traditional tribal values are ingrained in Southeast Native culture.

On the first day of the trial on Tuesday, witnesses on both sides testified about how the list has been used in local schools.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The National Tribal Health Conference got underway this morning in Anchorage. The city of Bethel says the

Indigenous leaders — including Rep. Peltola, U.S. and Canadian tribes — seek joint oversight of areas

Hundreds of hours of audio from an unlikely historical source are now archived on the internet, and available for anyone to listen to.Southeast Native Radio was broadcast over KTOO in Juneau for 16 years, from 1985 to 2001. The volunteer-produced show played as current affairs at the time, but twenty-one years later it’s become a window into the lives of the people and events that shaped Native culture in the region over the last century.

In the Civil War’s closing days, Union Army forces finally defeated the Confederate hold on Atlanta in fall of 1864. An economic citadel of the racist system of enslavement, almost half the city was burned by federal troops. In November, a week after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln and…

Feb. 17—PEMBROKE — The American Indian Studies Department at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke will host the 17th annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference March 31-April 1. The event