Although two major tribal organizations gave reasons for quitting the Alaska Federation of Natives, questions linger about whether there's more to the story about why Tlingit and Haida and the Tanana Chiefs Conference left AFN.
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There’s passionate debate among tribal leaders, artists, and others, pitting federally recognized tribes against state-recognized tribes as U.S. lawmakers consider new updates to a decades-old law.This prohibits misrepresentation in marketing American Indian or Alaska Native arts and crafts in the U.S.
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For many Alaska Natives, the news that two major tribal groups have pulled out of the Alaska Federation of Natives came as a shock. A look some of the possible political undercurrents behind the decision of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska and the Tanana Chiefs Conference to leave AFN. -
Since 2019, five organizations have pulled out of the Alaska Federation of Natives, the state's largest Native organization. Those include three regional Native corporations and this week, two large tribal organizations.
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As Anchorage's Sullivan Arena phases out its winter shelter program, an art exhibit explores the meaning of home, through the eyes of those who don't have a place to call home.
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Why some tribal health advocates believe that reclaiming culture and traditions can help heal the body, the mind and the spirit.
