President Trump signed an executive order in April directing the government to remove contracting rules that are not required ...

The Douglas Island facility follows a similar move by the Native Village of Eklutna, which in February opened a gaming hall ...

The nonprofit’s records request and the state’s denial revealed that Alaska, four years after creating a council on murdered and missing Indigenous people, cannot readily identify murder cases ...

A federal judge in Anchorage has ruled that the U.S. Department of the Interior may take land into trust on behalf of Alaska Native tribes, a decision that could allow tribes to create “Indian ...

The Alaska Federation of Natives , the ANCSA Regional Association , and the Alaska Native Village Corporation Association ...

Then, in 1971, Congress passed a law called the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that said the tribes no longer owned the land, but they could make a claim for a certain amount of acreage on ...

Author and cultural anthropologist Michael Engelhard is shining a new light on one of Alaska’s most storied towns in his ...

Alaska Native tribes, which are sovereign governments and can exert authority over Indian country, have relatively little land under their control.

New lawsuit seeks to limit Alaska Native tribes’ authority, stop Eklutna gambling hall State challenges legal interpretation that allows tribes to exert authority over as much as 2.7M acres.

When Alaska Natives debate proposals to drill and mine the landscape of the nation’s largest state, it involves more than an ...

The Gravel to Gravel Keystone Initiative, a co-stewardship deal between Interior and eight Alaska Native tribal coalitions, targets the restoration of Pacific salmon. The Interior Department has ...

Native Americans re not exempt from getting caught up in procedural disenrollments that could reemerge as states implement ...