This Day in Alaska History-November 21, 1900
Swiss Glacier Collapse That Buried Village Likely a ‘Direct Result of Our Warming Climate’
“What happened to Birch Glacier is what we would expect from rising temperatures in the Alps and elsewhere,” one scientist said. Thawing permafrost exacerbated by human-caused global heating is the likely culprit behind a massive glacier collapse that buried nearly the entire Swiss town of Blatten, one scientist said Thursday while warning of the likelihood […]
Alaska Village Initiatives Receives $28,000 Grant for the Amazing Ag-in-a-box Traveling Classroom
Alaska Village Initiatives (AVI) recently received a $28,000 grant from the First Nations Development Institute (FNDI) of Longmont, Colorado. This award will support the efforts of AVI’s The Amazing Ag-in-a-Box Traveling Classroom. AVI’s President/CEO Charles Parker noted that the First Nations grant “expands our ability to work with our villages to create food security and […]
Yakutat Tribe, SHI and Sealaska Urging Cessation of Logging of Historic Site
Area is ancient homeland of the Kwaashk’iḵwáan clan (Oral Tradition on Humpback Creek) (Archaeological Interpretation) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), Sealaska Corporation and the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe are calling on Yakutat’s Native village corporation to stop logging an area that is a known and important cultural and historic site, until an assessment can be conducted and mitigation […]