[Ketchikan, Alaska] Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) is pleased to announce that it has been selected to receive a $3.9 million Climate Resiliency Grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The Tribe will use the resources for the installation of the water infrastructure necessary to develop new affordable housing developments for Tribal citizens. “Receiving this […]
ANCHORAGE — Congressional candidate Tara Sweeney has received the endorsement of Koniag and Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI), two Alaska Native Corporations, in her bid for Alaska’s lone Congressional seat. “It’s an honor to be endorsed by two Alaska Native Corporations that work to strengthen the state economy and the lives of so many Alaska Native […]
Interested sellers have 60 days to respond to offers WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior announced today that the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations mailed approximately $30 million in purchase offers to more than 2,000 landowners with fractional interests at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North and South Dakota. Landowners who received offers […]
With a $32,578 grant from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak and the Alutiiq Museum are collaborating on a tool that will help people locate, view, and study Alutiiq objects in the world’s museums. The Amutat project, which started this month, will begin developing a database of ancestral Alutiiq objects […]