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 […]
ISLAMABAD — The Afghan Taliban has released a video showing its fighters handing over captured American soldier Bowe Bergdahl to the U.S. military in an eastern province that borders Pakistan Saturday. The Taliban video shows U.S. Army Sgt. Bergdahl, waiting in a white pick-up truck surrounded by heavily armed Taliban fighters. Most of them have their […]
In a letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski on Friday, the Archivist of the United Stated, David Ferriero, informed that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had completed their assessment of the Alaska State Archives and had determined that the NARA did not require the permanent preservation of the Alaska Court Records pre-dating statehood and […]