“This is not only an unnecessary expense for NVE and the State, but also a time-consuming, unwarranted federal lawsuit that will increase the financial strain on the Eklutna people and create another ...

This is a burden the Tribe, the local community and the State of Alaska’s citizens should not have to bear,” Leggett said. “Fifteen days ago, the Native Village of Eklutna opened its Chin ...

This is a burden the Tribe, the local community and the State of Alaska’s citizens should not have to bear,” Leggett said. “Fifteen days ago, the Native Village of Eklutna opened its Chin ...

challenges a legal interpretation that allows tribes to exert authority over as much as 2.7 million acres The state of Alaska has filed suit against the U.S. Department of the Interior in an attempt ...

Tribal guides escort guests around the small town on Alaska’s only reservation. (Rather than have a set location, other tribes chose to operate as tribal corporations.) Visitors learn the histor ...

The state of Alaska has filed suit against the federal Department of the Interior in an attempt to overturn a legal opinion that allowed the Native Village of Eklutna to open a federally regulated ...

The Brothertown Indian Nation in Wisconsin is seeking federal recognition, hoping to follow a similar path to the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina. The tribe lost its federal recognition in 1839 ...

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Tribes depend heavily on both ‘638’ and ‘direct’ funds for essential services. But what are these funds? And how are they linked to tribal sovereignty? Just two weeks after the ...

a push to help solve missing and unidentified person cases involving American Indian and Alaskan natives in the U.S. The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Missing and Murdered Unity is leading the charge. The ...

“When I’m home in Alaska, I am often introduced by my ... of the highest responsibility and trust toward Native Indian tribes, and it’s that trust responsibility that we’re talking about ...

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor says the case is a question of jurisdiction. “It has nothing to do with gaming, has nothing to do with being anti-Native or anti-tribe,” he said. “We’re in a ...