Members of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s advisory panel listen to testimony from a tribal leader in Anchorage this week. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal) Members of the ...

Charlie Jones, Chief Shakes VII, wearing the Kéet Kudàs, or Killer Whale shirt, from the Naanya.aayí clan of Wrangell, Alaska, in 1940. (Image courtesy of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida ...

Earlier this week, U.S. Treasurer Chief Lynn Malerba visited Alaska to meet with Alaska Native tribal leaders in her first official visit to an Alaska Native Tribe. Chief Malerba’s visit celebrated ...

It’s been three years since a crash in king salmon populations forced an outright ban on fishing for them in the Yukon River. And barring an unexpected recovery, residents along the river won’t be ...

The joint effort, which was months in the making, promotes a unified approach to addressing regional tribal concerns while ...

A federal judge in Anchorage has ruled that the U.S. Department of the Interior may take land into trust on behalf of Alaska Native tribes, a decision that could allow tribes to create “Indian country ...

Alaska’s 229 federally recognized tribes will get a long-sought victory when a bill giving them state recognition is signed Thursday by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. But since Alaska Native leaders acknowledge ...

Alaska lacks a state-run toxin testing program for noncommercial harvests, so tribes successfully took shellfish safety into their own hands. But shortages of funds and staff put limits on the ...

Reporter Gillian Flaccus and freelance photographer Nathan Howard documented the plight of remote Alaska Native tribes facing a lean winter because the once bountiful salmon runs on the Yukon River ...

Fifteen Southeast Alaska sovereign tribal nations petitioned an international commission for human rights to take action against Canada regarding violations by six mines in British Columbia, Canada.

Two southwest Alaska tribal governments are fighting to prevent foster children from being held at Anchorage, Alaska-based North Star Behavioral Health Center for indefinite periods of time, according ...

Michelle Demmert testified via video link in the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee room. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) Alaska tribes could gain the power to prosecute domestic violence and ...