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Alaska’s Wilderness At Risk As Trump Opens “Up To 82 Percent” Of National Reserve To Drilling
The Alaskan wilderness may soon be on the menu for fossil fuel giants. The Trump administration’s plan to roll back Biden-era ...
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Alaska Native Culture Groups | C-SPAN Classroom
There are 11 indigenous Alaska Native culture groups in Alaska. The Alaska Native Heritage Center shows how each of the various groups lives and the traditions that are still carried on today.
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Alaska Native dance groups perform for packed crowd at Quyana Night - Alaska Public Media
Alaska Native dance groups traveled from all over the state to dance and sing pieces that have been passed down from their cultures. “We’re always happy to share the songs of our ancestors ...
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Alaska Native tribes and groups call Indian Child Welfare Act ruling a win for tribal sovereignty
WASHINGTON — Alaska Native groups on Thursday celebrated the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Indian Child Welfare Act gives preference to relatives and ...
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Alaska Native group protects land coveted by Pebble Mine developers
An Alaska Native group on Thursday will announce that more than 44,000 acres of land near Bristol Bay, the site of the world’s largest wild salmon fishery, are off limits to future development ...
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Civil rights groups, attorneys demand DOC and ICE meet civil detention standards for detainees at Anchorage jail
Access to legal counsel, medical care, and punitive measures have been reported by federal detainees in the state facility  ...
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Groups want former Alaska Native hospital site revitalized with housing, shops and a memorial
Oct. 23—downtown, ANTHC, mural Several groups want the city of Anchorage to dust off plans for development of land that was once the site of the original Alaska Native Medical Center. The groups ...
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FEMA fires group for nonsensical Alaska Native translations
Central Alaskan Yup’ik is the largest of the Alaska Native languages, with about 10,000 speakers in 68 villages across southwest Alaska. Children learn Yup’ik as their first language in 17 of ...
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in ...
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Alaska Natives Before Statehood | American Experience | PBS
In the early spring of 1942 Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native Alaskans, members of indigenous groups who inhabited Alaska before it was ...
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy’s new saint?
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
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Lawmakers, Alaska Native groups urge new Arctic oil restrictions
Lawmakers, Alaska Native groups urge new Arctic oil restrictions. By Heather Richards | 09/17/2024 06:35 AM EDT . The administration is considering whether to create new protected areas in the ...