alaska-native-news

  WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 41, the Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act, legislation introduced by Congressman Nick Begich (R-AK) to address a decades-long omission in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and provide long-overdue recognition to Alaska Native communities...

   WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) Tuesday chaired a Senate Commerce Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries Subcommittee hearing on “The Blue Economy: Advancing American Fisheries, Maritime Strength, and Coastal Economies.” The hearing featured testimony from four expert witnesses, three of whom are Alaskan: Tommy Sheridan, director of the Alaska Blue Economy...

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will speak at a free event Tuesday, July 14, at 7 p.m. at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the Davis Concert Hall. Retired longtime radio journalist Robert Hannon will host the discussion with Jackson. Jackson took her seat on the Supreme Court of the United States […]

  “The normalization of coercion and threats of regime change undermines the integrity of the entire international legal order,” said three top rights experts. A trio of United Nations rights experts on Tuesday demanded that the US government “cease all threats” against Cuba and accused President Donald Trump of furthering a “disturbing trend of lawlessness” with preparatio...

  “Only Trump’s get-rich-quick bros would come up with this corrupt and moronic scheme,” wrote Democratic Sen. Ed Markey. A prominent US senator on Tuesday implored President Donald Trump to cancel his administration’s plan to give private companies enough plutonium to build around 2,000 nuclear bombs, warning the move raises “serious weapons proliferation concerns” along w...