(Anchorage, AK) – Last week U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason vacated Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland’s decision to place into trust a 787-square-foot parcel of land in downtown Juneau owned by the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indians. The Court found that even though the Secretary may create trust land in Alaska, the Assistant […]
JUNEAU, AK – The Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) announced the signing of a Indian Nation agreement with the State of Washington, Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), to provide Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) services. This partnership represents a crucial step forward in Tlingit & […]
For two months, staff in the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Community & Behavioral Services (CBS) Division worked on a button blanket for the Anchorage Museum’s Good Medicine exhibit. The cream-colored blanket has a deep red border. The interior is lined with different shapes of seaweed. The back of […]
JUNEAU, AK (August 3, 2023) – The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s (Tlingit & Haida) Executive Council voted yesterday to unanimously support the Frank Harrison, Elizabeth Peratrovich, and Miguel Trujillo Native American Voting Rights Act. The bi-partisan legislation has been brought forward in every Congress since 2019 and makes […]