New council leaders, citizen of year, emerging leader elected at 89th Tribal Assembly
Tlingit and Haida President Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson elected unopposed to sixth two-year term.
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Tlingit and Haida President Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson elected unopposed to sixth two-year term.
Posted by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska | Feb 26, 2021 Sulphurets Creek, which drains naturally occurring rusty water from the KSM mine prospect, enters Mitchell Creek upstream from Southeast Alaska in 2014. Tribal officials worry mining will send polluted water into British Columbia rivers that flow into Alaska. (File photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska) A 22-page final report released on Thursday culminates two years of data collected from water, sediment and fish tissue in three transboundary watersheds that straddle the frontier. And now, Alaska and British Columbia governments say their w...