Anchorage, AK— Tuesday, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg met with the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) in Anchorage. The meeting was productive and focused on ways to improve transportation and infrastructure in rural Alaska. During the meeting, AFN President Julie Kitka emphasized the importance of reliable, affordable, and safe transportation infrastructure for accessing medical care, […]
Some modern Alaska Natives still live almost exactly where their ancestors did 3,000 years ago The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering Land Bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made their way as far south as Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America. Others settled […]
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, joined 26 senators in reintroducing S.1723, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act, which seeks healing for stolen Native children and their communities. The bill would establish a formal commission to investigate, document, and […]
Anchorage, AK—On May 15, the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN), the state’s largest Native organization, held its quarterly meeting. Included on the agenda was the selection of the 2023 Annual Convention theme and keynote speakers, as well as a discussion about the three regional for-profit Native corporations and two regional not-for-profit tribal organizations that recently […]