AlaskaMining & Drilling
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Interior official hears wide range of input on oil drilling in Arctic
(6/6/2013)
(Alaska) -- Against the backdrop of Royal Dutch Shell's troubled 2012 attempt to drill in the Arctic Ocean, a top Interior official -- and former Alaskan -- heard...
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Aboriginal groups call for Arctic oil-drilling moratorium
(5/14/2013)
(Alaska) -- Aboriginal groups from every Arctic country have signed a statement that calls for an end to offshore drilling and a pause in northern energy projects unless...
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Shell says it will ‘pause’ drilling in Arctic Ocean for 2013
(2/28/2013)
(Alaska) -- An effort to give the United States a new source of domestic oil and refill the trans-Alaska pipeline took a hit Wednesday when Royal Dutch Shell PLC...
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Native corp.: Exploration shows promising reserves
(2/9/2013)
(Alaska) -- A Fairbanks-based Alaska Native corporation is in the process of extending a road in the Nenana Basin to reach a planned drill site they hope taps into...
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Arctic Drilling: Shell Oil Tows Rogue Rig Kulluk That Ran Aground to Kodiak Island for Damage Assessment
(1/12/2013)
(Alaska) -- After being stranded for days by stormy seas on the remote Alaskan island where it had run aground, the Shell oil rig named Kulluk was being towed on January...
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In village of Old Harbor, residents worry about grounded Kulluk
(1/4/2013)
(Alaska) -- In this small Alaska Native village, residents look across a protected bay at a rugged and wild island where they hunt deer and geese, fish for silver and...
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The Alaskans sitting on billions of barrels of oil
(12/9/2012)
(Alaska) -- After a decade of legal wrangling and spending $4.5bn (£2.8bn), this year Shell Oil was given permission to begin exploratory drilling off the coast of...
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Bristol Bay Tribes’ Fight to Fend off Pebble Mine Highlighted in National Geographic
(11/19/2012)
(Alaska) -- National Geographic’s In Focus feature this week scrutinizes Bristol Bay and the proposals by a two-conglomerate outfit calling itself the Pebble...
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EPA review of Pebble Mine gets more scrutiny
(11/9/2012)
(Alaska) -- A federal study that examined the impacts of large-scale mining in Bristol Bay and could affect permitting for the proposed Pebble Mine is going to get more...
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Commentary: Pebble Mine's Keystone 'science' worse than NFL replacement refs
(10/14/2012)
(Alaska) -- Imagine an NFL football game where the referees were picked by one team, flown around by one team, and paid by one team. Plus, the refs go into the game...
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Inupiat Goldman Prize Winner Strong in Fight Against Arctic Drilling
(10/12/2012)
(Alaska) -- Caroline Cannon, winner of the 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize, has not rested in her fight to save her Inupiat community and their way of life from Arctic...
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Begich, Parnell exchange words over drilling in Arctic reserve
(9/26/2012)
(Alaska) -- A federal proposal that would block oil and gas development in about half the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska has sparked harsh words between the state...
12 Total Articles on this Issue
Alaska Native Corporations
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OP/ED: Sealaska Nobility & Decreased Dividend
(5/21/2013)
(Alaska) -- To say that these Sealaska people are actually avaricious and elitist is a gross understatement. The current lands bill is under fire throughout the state....
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Native corporation launches tourism service
(5/5/2013)
(Alaska) -- An Alaska Native village corporation that operates a popular cruise ship destination has launched a commercial consulting service for others seeking help...
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Bristol Bay Native Corp. director on leave following rape accusation
(11/21/2012)
(Alaska) -- A director for Bristol Bay Native Corp. is on a leave of absence this week following police accusations he raped a woman earlier this month.
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Native corporation CEO says it's time to reduce federal contracting
(10/10/2012)
(Alaska) -- Ouzinkie Native Corp. CEO Greg Strong tells the Kodiak Daily Mirror (subscription required) it's time for Native corporations to reduce their dependence...
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ANWR
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Alaska asks DOI to open ANWR to exploratory development
(5/21/2013)
(Alaska) -- The state of Alaska was joined by an Alaska Native corporation executive in pressing the Obama administration to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to...
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State pushes offer to help pay for exploratory drilling in ANWR
(5/21/2013)
(Alaska) -- Alaska is trying to drum up publicity for its offer to pay some of the cost of exploratory drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but the pitch...
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Land Issues
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Court Says Feds Can Take Land Into Trust For Alaska Native Tribes
(4/2/2013)
(Alaska) -- A decision this week from the U.S. District court for the District of Columbia has big implications for Alaska tribes. In the case of Akiachak Native...
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Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
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Can state, tribes protect Native women?
(3/31/2013)
(Alaska) -- When the U.S. Congress reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act recently, women’s rights advocates of all makes celebrated across the nation. The...
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MURKOWSKI: Ending abuse, securing justice for Alaskans
(3/29/2013)
(Alaska) -- Alaska is known for its natural beauty, geographic vastness, and tremendous energy potential. Behind the beauty is a difficult reality that many of us, even...
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Compass: 'Choose Respect' fails to protect Native women
(3/28/2013)
(Alaska) -- It's a method, marches. Historically marches are held to protest (civil rights), to get from one point to another (relocation) and to parade power (...
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What will it take to shine a light on rural Alaska's sexual assault epidemic?
(3/27/2013)
(Alaska) -- Steubenville is a small Ohio town with a high-profile sex crime that's spawned a scandal and nationwide discussion. Two boys -- local football stars --...
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VAWA's Loudest Advocates Further Silence Native Women
(3/24/2013)
(Alaska) -- Many federally recognized tribes are celebrating the reauthorization of VAWA, which contains key provisions that authorize tribal courts to prosecute non-...
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VAWA provision triggers new debate on tribal authority in Alaska
(3/22/2013)
(Alaska) -- The recent reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act had many applauding its new protections for LGBT victims and illegal immigrants. All three...
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Murkowski makes rural safety proposal
(3/21/2013)
(Alaska) -- Discussion of a proposal to bolster law enforcement in rural Alaska was initiated by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Friday.
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Murkowski Bringing Tribes, State, Feds Together to Improve Rural Justice
(3/17/2013)
(Alaska) -- Senator Lisa Murkowski reached out to Alaska’s tribal leaders with the outlines of a proposal - years in the making- that would create a collaborative...
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Violence Against Women Act: The great divide for Alaska tribes
(3/17/2013)
(Alaska) -- Between February 1, and March 7, 2013, the day President Obama signed the Violence Against Women's Act into law, 44 battered women and children from 15...
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Letter: Murkowski’s legal judgment correct on tribal court authority
(3/17/2013)
(Alaska) -- Shannyn Moore complains (Comment, March 10) that Sen. Murkowski deliberately excluded Alaska Native tribes from new tribal court criminal and civil authority...
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Opinion: Alaska Politicians Stand in the Way of Protections
(3/16/2013)
(Alaska) -- President Obama signed the Violence Against Women Act [last] week. Finally, something bipartisan passed! American women are better protected from coast to...
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Alaska Native women lose in Violence Against Women Act renewal
(3/12/2013)
(Alaska) -- Last Thursday, March 7, President Obama signed into law the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Nationwide, many celebrated the new...
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VAWA Not a Victory for Alaskan Native Women
(3/12/2013)
(Alaska) -- President Obama signed the Violence Against Women Act last week. Finally, something bipartisan passed! American women are better protected from coast to...
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Shannyn Moore: Alaska politicians stand in the way of protections
(3/10/2013)
(Alaska) -- President Obama signed the Violence Against Women Act this week. Finally, something bipartisan passed! American women are better protected from coast to...
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Alaska Tribal Groups Won't Receive Domestic-Violence Power in Federal Act
(2/13/2013)
(Alaska) -- The recent reauthorization of the federal Violence Against Women Act has some Alaska Native tribal groups upset, over provisions they say deny their villages...
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Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act with Tribal provisions | In Our Opinion
(2/9/2013)
(Alaska) -- Commit an act of domestic violence in a neighboring county or state, and you can be arrested by local authorities and prosecuted in that jurisdiction's...
16 Total Articles on this Issue
Tobacco & Cigarettes
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Anti-smoking ads include American Indians, Alaska Natives
(3/29/2013)
(Alaska) -- The Be Tobacco Free campaign has released a new set of videos that are aimed at reducing smoking among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
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Alaska Kids fight Big Tobacco and join National Kick Butts Day initiative
(3/20/2013)
(Alaska) -- Alaska kids are joining thousands of youth across the country by taking part in Kick Butts Day, a national day of activism that empowers youth to stand out,...
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OPINION: Local tribal councils become tobacco-free in 2012
(1/11/2013)
(Alaska) -- Looking back at 2012 for Maniilaq Association's Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Programs, the year went fairly well. Both programs visited and met with...
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Alaska tribes going tobacco-free
(11/19/2012)
(Alaska) -- Two more Alaska tribes are going tobacco-free. The Juneau Empire says the Skagway Tribal Council and the Chilkat Indian Village recently adopted local,...
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Two more tribes go tobacco-free in Southeast Alaska
(11/16/2012)
(Alaska) -- Momentum for statewide tobacco-free workplaces continues to spread in Alaska as the Skagway Tribal Council and the Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan) tribes...
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Alaska Native Groups Join Forces to Fight Tobacco Use
(10/22/2012)
(Alaska) -- Alaska Native anti-tobacco crusaders received unanimous support from the board of the state’s largest Native organization last year.
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Native Vote
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Debate over Alaska Native voting may be a preview of 2014 Senate race
(3/11/2013)
(Alaska) -- The sparring over whether U.S. Sen. Mark Begich was correct in his assertions last week that the Parnell administration and some legislators seek to suppress...
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Tribes, individuals ask to intervene in Alaska's challenge of Voting Rights Act
(11/9/2012)
(Alaska) -- The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) announced that four individuals and four Alaska Native tribal governments asked on Tuesday to join with U.S. Attorney...
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National tribal group raises concern with Alaska over voter ID laws
(10/23/2012)
(Alaska) -- The National Congress of American Indians released a report this week naming Alaska as one of six “states of concern” for Native voters due to...
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My Turn: Protect your future - vote
(10/11/2012)
(Alaska) -- In November of 1912, thirteen men and one woman gathered together in Juneau to organize the Alaska Native Brotherhood, which is now celebrating its momentous...
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Strong turnout for Alaska Native Vote event
(9/28/2012)
(Alaska) -- Attendees of an Alaska Native Vote event at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall Thursday had the opportunity to learn about the voting process, get registered to vote...
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Voter Suppression
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Debate over ease of voting in Alaska may be a preview of 2014 Senate race
(3/10/2013)
(Alaska) -- The sparring over whether U.S. Sen. Mark Begich was correct in his assertions last week that the Parnell administration and some legislators seek to suppress...
1 Article on this Issue
Cobell
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More Alaskans to receive share of Cobell settlement
(1/20/2013)
(Alaska) -- Far more Alaskans will receive a share of a $3.4 billion federal Indian lands settlement than previously estimated, according to administrators handling...
1 Article on this Issue
Native Voices
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CHAMPAGNE: Captured Criminal Justice In Alaska Native Villages
(11/8/2012)
(Alaska) -- Criminal justice administration in the state of Alaska is very centralized. It is also very ineffective. Throughout the 49th state, high rates of domestic...
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Mascot Issue
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BLOG: Bittersweet October: Fighting American Indian Stereotypes
(9/24/2012)
(Alaska) -- As October arrives, I tend to think of two quotes in particular, the first from Thomas Merton: “October is a fine and dangerous time in America....
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Other News
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OP/ED: Lesson taught by tribe's hospitality
(6/16/2013)
(Alaska) -- We recently took a family trip to the Havasupai Reservation, located in the Grand Canyon. We drove five hours from Phoenix after attending my brother-in-law...
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Sealaska, Sitka Tribe sign Redoubt Falls agreement
(6/14/2013)
(Alaska) -- Sealaska and the Sitka Tribe have reached an agreement on the management of Redoubt Lake Falls — when, and if, the property is ever conveyed by the...
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On the Passing of Ahtna Elder, Katie John
(6/13/2013)
(Alaska) -- On May 31, 2013, the Ahtna elder, matriarch and icon, passed away at the age of 97. Katie John was a long-time client of the Native American Rights Fund (...
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Eroded authority: Respected elder's lawsuit posed challenge for state
(6/11/2013)
(Alaska) -- Katie John, the Athabascan elder, was to be buried Saturday in her home village of Mentasta. The issues raised by her famous lawsuit will live on.
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UAA announces 2013-14 Atwood Chair of Journalism
(6/11/2013)
(Alaska) -- Journalist Mark Trahant will serve as the 20th Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The position brings nationally known...
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Tlingit lullabies mix with jazz
(6/10/2013)
(Alaska) -- Tlingit lullabies mingling with top tier jazz music? Most definitely. It's intriguing, poetic and approachable: the second annual Native Jazz Workshop...
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Scientists want protections for salmon in Tongass
(6/10/2013)
(Alaska) -- More than 200 scientists have signed onto a letter asking Congress to enact legislation protecting 1.9 million acres of salmon habitat in this country's...
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PHOTOS: Visitation Service for Athabascan Elder Katie John
(6/5/2013)
(Alaska) -- Fred John, son of Athabascan elder Katie John, speaks at a visitation service for his late mother at the Anchorage Baptist Temple, in Anchorage, AK, on...
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OPINION: Lesson taught by tribe's hospitality
(6/3/2013)
(Alaska) -- A couple weeks ago, we took a family trip to the Havasupai Reservation, located in the Grand Canyon. We drove five hours from Phoenix after attending my...
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100 Years After Historic Denali Climb, Descendants Do It Again
(6/1/2013)
(Alaska) -- It’s on for June. Family reunion at 20,000 feet. Don’t forget the axes, the rope—and the documentary guy. At the summit of Denali this summer, blood...
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Alaska Writer Raises Money to Visit Ancestral King Island Home
(6/1/2013)
(Alaska) -- Writer, poet and mother of two Jane Naviyak Kane has successfully raised the money needed to make the trip to her native community’s ancestral home—the...
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Head to Fairbanks, Alaska, for the Annual World Eskimo Indian Olympics
(6/1/2013)
(Alaska) -- This summer athletes, vendors, and spectators will gather from around the world in Fairbanks to celebrate the 52nd Annual World Eskimo Indian Olympics.
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Katie John, noted Ahtna elder and Alaskan icon, has passed
(6/1/2013)
(Alaska) -- Katie John’s storied journey, in the place she loved so much, came to an end after almost 100 years. John passed away Friday morning at the Alaska...
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Katie John, renowned Athabascan elder, has died
(5/31/2013)
(Alaska) -- Athabascan elder Katie John of Mentasta Lake died early Friday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.
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Katie John, who sued US over Native subsistence rights, dies
(5/31/2013)
(Alaska) -- Athabascan elder Katie John of Mentasta Lake, a powerful and effective advocate for subsistence rights, died early Friday at the Alaska Native Medical Center...
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89 bears killed to boost moose hunting in Western Alaska
(5/30/2013)
(Alaska) -- State wildlife biologists from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game recently killed almost 90 bears and delivered nearly 4 tons of bear meat to residents...
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Crowdsourcing wins poet visit to Bering Sea ghost village
(5/28/2013)
(Alaska) -- An Anchorage poet gets to realize her dream to visit the ghost of a remote western Alaska village where her Inupiat Eskimo ancestors once lived, thanks to...
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Alaskans debate whether religion of Native Alaskans is more important than state salmon fishing rules
(5/27/2013)
(Alaska) -- A hot debate is going on in Alaska over whether the religious rights of Native Alaskans are more important than state salmon fishing rules in light of a...
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Shannyn Moore: Prosecution of Native fishermen is just wrong
(5/27/2013)
(Alaska) -- "If I got the means to do it, I will do it," Phillip said. "Even if you are breaking the law?" asked his lawyer, James Davis Jr. "...
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Native Sun News: Judge sues Sitka Tribe for discrimination
(5/23/2013)
(Alaska) -- Tlingit & Haida Central Council Delegate Betty Jo Moore hoped to be reinstated as an associate tribal judge by the time the annual council assembly...
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