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We, the local tribes of the Yukon Flats, strongly oppose any oil and gas development on our ancestral lands, specifically Doyon and Hilcorp’s plans to drill in the region. This is not merely a ...
A U.S. District Court in Alaska ruled Wednesrday, in a case brought by six Tribes from the Yukon-Kuskokwim region,, that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) must supplement the proposed Donlin ...
For the first time in memory, both king and chum salmon have dwindled to almost nothing and the state has banned salmon fishing on the Yukon, even the subsistence harvests that Alaska Natives rely ...
including the Yukon and Kuskokwim. “The tradeoffs here are huge, if you get the wrong preferred alternative going through the council,” Paine said. The tribes have a ready response to ...
Yukon River starts in British Columbia and drains an area larger than Texas in both Canada and Alaska as it cuts through the lands of Athabascan, Yup’ik and other tribes. The crisis is affecting ...
What students can do: Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas have been adapting to changing climate for thousands of years, and many native tribes lead ... villages on the Yukon River?
feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the thousands. But after rebuilding her sled dog team as an adult, Potts-Joseph, a member of the Han Gwich’in tribe, had to turn to store ...
This new funding will help to fill programming gaps and better support Indigenous peoples in the Yukon. A screenshot of Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Carloyn Bennett at the announcement of ...
The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Native American tribes in a dispute with the federal government over health care costs. The 5-4 decision mandates that the government cover millions in ...
Several tribes in Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada see hope in small property transfers that have become part of a growing “Land Back” movement. Much of the land in Owens Valley was ...