This Day in Alaska History-September 21st, 1891
After State of Alaska fails to address voter disenfranchisement issues, civil rights groups file suit
The ACLU of Alaska, Native American Rights Fund, and Perkins Coie filed a lawsuit after the state failed to implement ballot curing provisions ahead of fall elections. ANCHORAGE – The ACLU of Alaska, Native American Rights Fund (NARF), and Perkins Coie are taking the State of Alaska to court after it refused to address ballot […]
The Protection of Alaska Native Subsistence Rights and Use
Our first Subsistence Action Workshop begins tomorrow! Register today for all three workshops. Registration links, date, and time are below. It has been 42 years since the basic ANILCA Title 8 Rural Subsistence Priority was put into federal law. Many changes have occurred in implementation and there is a whole body of federal and state […]
Biden’s Free Home COVID Tests Out of Reach for Many Native Americans
WASHINGTON — A U.S. government initiative to ship half a billion free COVID-19 tests to Americans will struggle to reach one of the communities that has been hardest hit by the pandemic — Native Americans living on rural reservations. The administration launched a website — COVIDTests.gov — on January 19, which links to an online U.S. […]