Washington, D.C. – For nearly 50 years, the Huna Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska have been prohibited by federal regulation from practicing an integral part of their heritage they have shared for generations – the traditional harvest of gull eggs in Glacier Bay. On Monday, Alaska Congressman Don Young made headway in resolving this longstanding subsistence concern by passing H.R. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young on Monday voted in support of H.J. Res. 80, the American Indian and Alaska Native, Health, Education, and Safety Act, which will provide immediate funding for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, and Indian Health Service through December 15, 2013.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – During the week of August 19, 2013, a team of agents, led by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), raided placer mine sites in the Fortymile Mining District near Chicken, Alaska to investigate potential Clean Water Act violations.
WASHINGTON, DC – Alaskan Congressman Don Young yesterday announced his nominees for appointment to the U.S. military service academies for the class of 2017.