Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor its annual Latseen Hoop Camp in Juneau in August and feature Bob Saviers, a current coach for Juneau’s Hoop Time Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). The Latseen Hoop Camp is a free, innovative program that provides a fun and safe environment for youth to be physically active, develop basketball fundamentals and […]
The House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a hearing for H.R. 2386. U.S. Congressman Don Young, who introduced the bill, chairs the subcommittee. The federal legislation would recognize aboriginal land claims for five traditional villages that were excluded from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), including […]
Sealaska has received interim conveyance for final acreage promised under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). In a signing ceremony, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) State Director Bud Cribley signed the document on Friday March 6, 2015. “BLM is pleased to be part of this significant milestone toward the completion of the Alaska Land […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Sealaska is celebrating the passage of H.R. 3979, which includes the Sealaska land entitltment bill, a comprehensive and visionary solution to many issues facing Southeast Alaska. Through this legislation, Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people of Southeast Alaska will be conveyed 70,075 acres promised under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of […]