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    Alaska Natives
    People dance in celebration of the Fishermen’s Totem Pole in Hoonah on Friday, May 30, 2025. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)
    Hoonah’s rich fishing history remembered through totem pole
    By Jasz Garrett • June 5, 2025 11:30 am

    The story of fishermen carved — “all of us in the past, all of us in the future, and all of us now.”

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    ‘Wáats’asdiyei Joe Yates, Raye Lankford, X̱’unei Lance Twitchell and Rochelle Adams pose with the Children’s and Family Emmy Award award Lankford and Twitchell won for co-writing the an episode of the PBS animated children’s show “Molly of Denali.” (Photo courtesy of ‘Wáats’asdiyei Joe Yates)
    ‘Molly of Denali’ episode wins best writing honor...
    By Mark Sabbatini • March 17, 2025 1:30 am

    First Emmy win for animated PBS show goes to episode co-writers X̱’unei Lance Twitchell and Raye Lankford.

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    Opinion: The open primary reflects the voting preferences...
    By Michelle (Macuar) Sparck • July 25, 2024 1:30 am

    In 2022, Alaska became the first state in the country to run a top-four open primary in tandem with an…

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    A black tote holding Alaska Native artifacts sits on the ground of the Juneau International Airport Thursday afternoon. It was flown from Seattle after being filled with 25 Alaska Native artifacts held at George Fox University in Oregon. ( Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire)
    Kake to welcome artifacts — some over 200...
    By Clarise Larson • November 18, 2022 6:30 am

    ‘When I looked at them it was like looking at my past and my elders’

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    Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire
Lillian Petershoare speaks into a microphone during a Walter Soboleff Day presentation in the Walter Soboleff Building Monday afternoon. She was joined by members of the Kuneix Hidí Northern Light United Church’s Native Ministries Committee Barbara Searls, Maxine Richert and Myra Munson to talk about an overture developed by in 2021, which analyzed and openly outlined the injustices and racially charged motives that led to the closure of Soboleff’s church by the Presbyterian Church.
    Walter Soboleff Day marked with pledge of action
    By Clarise Larson • November 14, 2022 2:30 am

    Church leaders share details about planned apology for church closure

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    Gov. Mike Dunleavy, center, holds a copy of House Bill 123, providing state recognition for Alaska’s 229 federally recognized Native tribes, at an event hosted by the Alaska Federation of Natives in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday, July 28, 2022. (Photo provided by the Alaska Federation of Natives)
    Bill recognizing Alaska Native Tribes signed into law
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • August 3, 2022 2:30 am

    The bill serves as the first formal recognition of Alaska’s Indigenous people

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    Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire
Elizabeth Kaaxgal.aat Peratrovich’s legacy is strong in Juneau, where a recently finished mural and renamed plaza help honor the memory of the civil rights activist.
    Organizations unite to celebrate legacy of Elizabeth Peratrovich
    By Michael S. Lockett • February 23, 2022 2:30 am

    Juneau recently named a plaza in her honor.

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    Signatures for a ballot initiative to have the State of Alaska recognize the 229 federally-recognized tribal governments were submitted to Division of Elections offices in Anchorage Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. The campaign was able to collect 56,230 signatures - well over the minimum requirement - meaning Alaskan voters will likely see the initiative on the November ballot. (Courtesy photo / Alaskans for Better Government)
    Campaigners submit over 56,000 signatures for tribal recognition...
    By Peter Segall • January 19, 2022 2:30 am

    State has 60 days to reply.

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    The Wrangell Institute was one of many residential schools in Alaska dedicated to involuntarily teaching the Indigenous people of the state European ways of living, forcibly breaking them from their own Alaska Native cultures. (Courtesy photo / National Park Service)
    Churches respond to revelations about residential schools
    By Michael S. Lockett • November 24, 2021 6:30 am

    That acknowledgement is taking a number of forms, varying by institution.

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    Tlingit master carver Wayne Price, left, and students from Angoon High School wheel a dugout canoe down to the Angoon waterfront on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, for a ceremony commemorating the bombardment of the village by the U.S. Navy in 1882. Dugout canoes were specifically targeted by the navy for destruction, and Price said crafting a new one was a way of healing from the past. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)
    Remembering and rebuilding: Angoon residents commemorate 139 years...
    By Peter Segall • November 3, 2021 5:30 am

    ‘We’re still here.”

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    Anthony Mallott, president  and CEO of Sealaska Corporation reflected on the 50th Anniversary of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act during the Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce weekly lunch on Thursday. (Courtesy Photo/Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce)
    Mallott looks back — and forward — 50...
    By Dana Zigmund • October 27, 2021 2:30 am

    Native corporates are big business in Alaska

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    This map from the U.S. Cencsus Bureau highlighting Alaska's indigenous populations. A ballot initiative to have the State of Alaska formally recognize the state's already federally recognized tribes took a step forward Monday, when it was certified by the Division of Elections. (Courtesy image/ Wikicommons)
    Tribal recognition initiative moves ahead
    By Peter Segall • October 13, 2021 2:30 am

    Mending divisions.

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    From left to right:Miakah Nix, Daniel Ashenfelter, Shawn Merry and Conrad Revey, members of the Keex' Kwaan Community Forest Partnership, one of the many existing programs set to benefit from the trust. The Keex'Kwaan Community Forest Partnership and the Hoonah Native Forest Partnership are collaborative land management programs and are helping to define what community land management can look like for Southeast Alaska. These partnerships help develop a local workforce for natural resource careers including through the Alaska Youth Stewards program which targets high school-aged Alaskans. Programs work with private, state, and federal land managers to ensure that local priorities, local employment, and Indigenous values are integrated into the treatment of local lands and waters. (Courtesy photo / Bethany Goodrich)
    New fund established for Indigenous-led development
    By Peter Segall • September 22, 2021 2:30 am

    Funding into the future.

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