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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 ...
Williams has said that tribes, not corporations, should receive government relief. (Katie Basile/KYUK) The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is the second largest region in the United States without access to ...
The federal agencies issuing key permits and approvals for the Donlin Gold mine in Southwest Alaska need to reevaluate the ...
Yup’ik and other tribes. The crisis is affecting both subsistence fishing in far-flung outposts and fish processing operations that employ tribal members in communities along the lower Yukon and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation examined how a lack of federal funding and climate change severely impact ...
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 ...
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?
The U.S. government rejected an emergency request from 100 tribes and communities in Western ... and closures on the Arctic, Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers in Western Alaska have noticeably worsened ...
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 ...
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 ...