ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – This week, GCI’s Channel 907 will provide coverage of the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Convention and will feature additional Alaska Native cultural programming including AFN Quyana performances, a documentary about the 2016 Native Youth Olympics and coverage of the 2016 Elders and Youth Conference. Channel 907 will air live coverage of the […]
ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Federation of Natives rallied behind the PFD Voter Registration ballot initiative at last week’s AFN Convention. The Council for the Advancement of Alaska Natives, an organization representing the entire regional tribal consortia and major Alaska Native non-profits introduced a resolution of support for PFD Voter Registration during the conference. On Saturday, […]
Anchorage, AK – Wednesday, during his address to the Alaska Federation of Natives Board Retreat in Kotzebue, Alaskan Congressman Don Young called into question the Obama Administration’s many actions and proposals that take away the rights of Alaskans to responsibly develop their land for their social and economic well-being, as written in the Alaska Native Settlement […]
ANCHORAGE: Shortly after rejecting Dan Sullivan’s anti-subsistence lawsuit, a court ordered Mead Treadwell’s Division ofElections to provide ballots in Yupiq, Cupik, and Gwich’in after Treadwell had refused to. Yesterday’s court decision is the latest in a series of defeats in the Parnell Administration’s attacks on Alaska Native voting rights, subsistence, and tribal sovereignty. “Dan Sullivan, […]