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Our updated story: Mary Peltola will be the first Alaska Native person to serve in Congress.
“I will have that distinction,” she says. “But I think what’s most important is that I’m Alaskan and being sent to represent all Alaskans.”
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“I just don’t think it’s right or fair to expect workers to go to work sick as a dog without being able to have a few days to recover,” said Congresswoman Mary Peltola.
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“Indigenous knowledge is science,” said Charitie Ropati, who has brought Alaska Native values to her research on how climate change affects Alaska's ecology. “ The way we care for each other is science.”
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Update from
@KYUKNews
: About 110 people are sheltering at the Hooper Bay School. Tribal Chief Edgar Tall said at least three houses have moved off their foundations. He said he’s never seen a storm like this.
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The EPA announced this morning that it is effectively killing the controversial Pebble mine project in Southwest Alaska.
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Incumbent Congresswoman Mary Peltola won with 55% of the vote to Sarah Palin's 45%.
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Snow blanketed parts of Anchorage this morning, as the city saw an early, though unofficial, first snowfall of the season.
The National Weather Service says it's technically unofficial because no snow was reported at its official measuring spot.
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Trefon Angasan, who died Sunday of complications from COVID-19, was an expert on Alaska Native policy, and was considered an “encyclopedic resource” on the Alaska Natives Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act.
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The top three
#Iditarod
teams this year are all Alaska Native mushers.
“It’s almost unheard of aside from some of the earlier days in the race when there was more participation from rural teams and Native teams,” said second-place finisher Pete Kaiser.
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Breaking: Suzanne LaFrance is poised to be Anchorage’s first elected female mayor.
Early election results show her leading incumbent Mayor Dave Bronson by nearly 10%.
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Breaking news: Democrat Mary Peltola has won Alaska's special U.S. House election, beating Republican Sarah Palin.
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The
#Iditarod
Trail Sled Dog Race has a new champion. Ryan Redington and his dog team just crossed the finish line in Nome. Redington has deep mushing roots, his grandfather is known as the “Father of the Iditarod."
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Indigenous women and girls are murdered or disappear from American cities in alarming numbers, but no one knows the true scope of the problem, because no one regularly reports the data. A new effort aims to change that (via
@lruskin
)
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Breaking news: The Biden administration has canceled all oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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A Yup'ik college student designed a biotech process in which microbes extract rare earth metals — without creating toxic byproducts. Now, the world is taking notice.
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Did you catch the northern lights tonight, Alaska?
We’d love to see your photos!
Here’s one from Anchorage’s Airport Heights neighborhood:
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Breaking news: The Anchorage Assembly has passed an emergency order that includes a mask mandate. It takes effect immediately.
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Alaskans in several communities around the state reported getting emails demanding that they "vote for Trump or else.” The FBI and the Alaska Division of Elections say they are investigating.
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For the first time, four women mushers have finished in the Iditarod’s top 10.
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Update: The storm has destroyed Shaktoolik’s berm, its main protection from the sea, says mayor Lars Sookiayak. "We're pretty heartbroken," he said. He's worried about tonight, when seas are expected to pound the coastline again. Photo from Gloria Andrew.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit Alaska next week. His office announced visits to Kotzebue, Anchorage and Juneau on the three-day trip starting Monday.
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Breaking: A federal judge has reversed the Trump administration's environmental approval for ConocoPhillips' major (160,000 barrel/day) Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope
#AKleg
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In Dillingham, three 6th graders could not be happier. They've been trying to change the name of Squaw Creek by their school.
And on Friday, Interior Secretary Haaland announced a policy to change all federal place names that contain the derogatory term.
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Sealaska Corporation announced on Monday that it is getting out of the logging business after more than 40 years, the latest sign of Southeast Alaska’s economic transition away from logging.
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Jeremy Cubas resigned from his job as Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s pro-family policy adviser today after Alaska Public Media and
@APMreports
revealed that Cubas defended Hitler, used racist slurs and said a man raping his wife is an “impossible act."
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An investigation by
@AKpublicnews
and
@AmPubMedia
found Joe Gerace used a resume that misrepresented his educational credentials and military background to get a job running the city’s health department. He resigned today citing health issues.
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Within a few days, Alaska officials expect to share more about how the Division of Motor Vehicles managed to issue a pair of personalized license plates referencing Nazi Germany.
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Shortly before the announcement that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died Friday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in an interview that if she was presented with a vacancy on the court, she would not vote to confirm a nominee before the election.
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Breaking news: Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson turned off the fluoridation of the city’s water for about five hours in October, his office confirmed in a statement.
City code requires the fluoridation of Anchorage’s water supply.
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Apayauq Reitan is making history this week as the first out trans woman to compete in the
#Iditarod
. She says coming out has brought her closer not only to her family, but to her Alaska Native heritage.
“I’m proud to be an Iñupiaq woman,” she says.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski has overtaken Kelly Tshibaka in updated returns from the state Division of Elections tonight, opening a 968-vote lead over her Republican challenger.
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Our
#Iditarod
Dog of the Day: Meet Schooby, who's nine years old and, Nic Petit said, the brains of the team.
“He’s responsible for everything, including Daddy,” Petit said, pointing to himself. “He’s a professional. He knows what we’re up to.”
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Grubby the opossum, who has wandered Homer for more than a month, has officially been captured and taken to the Alaska Zoo after biting a police officer's hand.
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Our
#Iditarod
Dog of the Day: Senior, who’s so good that he's now named after race founder Joe Redington Sr.
“And he lives up to his name," said musher Hunter Keefe. "He’s my commander, he runs the team and gets everything out of everyone.”
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Three weeks since a fire destroyed Tuluksak’s source of drinking water, the village is relying donations from activists, a gold mining company, and a rapper from the Black Eyed Peas. Noticeably absent: supplies from the state government.
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U. S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has won reelection with 53.7% of the vote.
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When U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s flight from Juneau to Haines was rained out on Wednesday, he changed plans and did what Alaskans have done for decades: He boarded a ferry. (via
@AlaskaBeacon
)
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Seward's Lydia Jacoby just won Alaska’s first Olympic swimming gold medal.
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Early results posted tonight show Anchorage Midtown voters strongly rejecting an initiative to recall Assembly member Meg Zaletel.
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The Interior Department today named Raina Thiele as the department’s top official on Alaska issues. She will be the first Alaska Native person to hold the position.
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Breaking: Anchorage mayoral candidate Bill Popp has endorsed former Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance in the upcoming runoff election.
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Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma joined a group of Alaska Natives, artists and environmental activists in Fairbanks for a performance that expresses Indigenous peoples’ grief over the shrinking population of salmon and other impacts of climate change.
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Meet Zeke the Iditarod dog.
Six years ago, he was adopted by musher Kailyn Davis in Fairbanks. He had just tufts of fur and a lot of scabs. She says running with a dog team has helped him heal.
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How does a salmon cross a road? The answer will soon be “with financial help from the federal Transportation Department.”
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Alaska will become the first state in the country to open COVID-19 vaccinations to anyone 16 and older, officials announced this afternoon.
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Meet Rejoy Armamento, an Anchorage artist who's making her mark on the city — literally. She's painted murals in many parts of town. Her work often celebrates women and diversity.
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#Iditarod
rookie Eddie Burke Jr. fell asleep and lost his dog team this weekend. Temperatures had dropped far below zero. And he needed help. The musher who stepped in: Burke's top competition for Rookie of the Year.
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A Skagway couple has become an internet sensation for a video of their dog bus.
“I look in the rearview mirror of the bus as I’m driving sometimes. And I see all the dogs back there,” says Lee Thompson. "I can’t believe we do this for a living."
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Two floatplanes carrying a combined total of 16 people crashed Monday afternoon near Ketchikan (via
@KRBDRadio
)
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Two Yup’ik engineers are trying to push the Yugtun or Central Alaskan Yup’ik language into the future using technology. Their latest project opens the door for Yugtun autocorrect, grammar checkers and automatic subtitles on Yup’ik videos.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game caught another baby opossum in Homer late last week, bringing the total to five since the capture of the mom, Grubby, in late May.
But wildlife biologist Jason Herreman said the search isn’t over.
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The Coalition for Education Equity of Alaska is preparing to sue the state for inadequately funding public schools.
“If the only thing that people will listen to is the court system, then that’s what we’re left with," said Caroline Storm.
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Two members of the Anchorage Assembly say they have no confidence in Deputy Library Director Judy Eledge and want her to resign.
In a resolution up for a vote tomorrow, they’ve laid out more than three pages of reasons why.
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The restaurant Peace on Earth has been delivering pizzas to the Unalakleet checkpoint for 25 years. They get
#Iditarod
orders from all over the world — even Abu Dhabi.
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The first and only cruise ship to sail in Southeast Alaska during the pandemic reported a positive case of COVID-19 on board Tuesday.
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For the first time in three years, Anchorage residents will celebrate Pride with a parade downtown. It's set to start at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow.
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This restaurant is delivering hot pizza and warm messages to exhausted Iditarod mushers.
“You get moms and dads, you know, ordering their kids pizzas,” Davida Hanson said. “And so you get, ‘Love, from Mom and Dad. Oh, and can you put a heart on there?’”
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“(Fred Meyer's) having a hard time retaining employees," said Silvana Tirban, a Fairbanks union official negotiating with the Kroger-owned grocery chain. “And they sure realize that better wages and benefits are a part of that problem."
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The annual Yup'ik spelling bee held last weekend in Anchorage, which now includes Inupiaq, seems to have planted seeds of hope in communities across the state — that language can be saved if you work at it.
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The Doyon Foundation is working to dub two episodes of "Molly of Denali" into the Gwich’in and Koyukon languages. It's part of Doyon's language revitalization program. And the episodes will likely air across the state.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has seen a lot of ports, but he has never seen one with the existential challenges of the Port of Alaska.
He visited the port in Anchorage today and sought reassurance that the new engineering is solid.
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Update: Jimbo the
#Iditarod
sled dog was found today. He was in an Anchorage backyard.
Race officials say he's eaten a meal, is in good health and went home with one of Richie Diehl's family members.
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Anchorage’s historic city hall will become a new public library. Mayor Dave Bronson said it's part of an effort to revitalize the city's downtown.
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A program focused on bridging the gap between Indigenous knowledge and Western science is entering its second year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It’s called Tamamta, a Yup’ik and Sugpiaq word that means “all of us” or “we."
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Alaska Air Group has told its 22,000 employees they will be required to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
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A coalition of nine progressive groups in Alaska are calling for the Wasilla Republican to resign or be removed from office, for using his position to try to overturn the election results.
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Behold, the 78lb
@AlaskaStateFair
rutabaga. What do you do with rutabagas, you ask? We'll consult our midwesterners.
http://t.co/WfceGAyLlt
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A federal District Court judge ruled today that Gov. Mike Dunleavy violated the First Amendment rights of Libby Bakalar, an assistant attorney general whom he fired the day he was sworn into office.
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Check out the shoes designed by Wrangell high school students to represent their hometown. They're hoping to win a nationwide Vans contest.
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The teen swimming phenom is scheduled to arrive back in Seward on Monday, where her dad, Rich Jacoby, said she’s excited to sleep in her own bed and eat a home-cooked meal.
And then, it’s back to 12th grade.
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The Alaska House of Representatives removed Rep. David Eastman from its Judiciary Committee in a near-unanimous vote on Monday. The move further marginalizes one of the House’s most conservative Republicans.
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Nellie Moore was one of the first Indigenous reporters in Alaska, who could sew an atikluk as well as stitch news and information into stories that made a difference.
She died Jan. 31 at the age of 69. She leaves behind a huge footprint in journalism.
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"I think this is a really important wakeup call for Alaska, in the sense that Merbok formed in an area that we just simply don’t ever expect tropical systems to form," said UAF climatologist Rick Thoman.
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Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is now ahead of GOP challenger Kelly Tshibaka by 1,658 votes in updated election results Friday, which leaves her almost certain to win reelection.
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A fourth-grader became the winner of the first ever statewide Iñupiaq spelling bee.
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Our
#Iditarod
Dog of the Day: Meet Mayhem, who's "the sweetest girl on the team," said Anna Berington.
“She loves to be pet, so every time you’re walking by, she gives you a paw," said Berington. "She’s just so easy."
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Kenneth McCoy will be the first Black chief of the Anchorage Police Department.
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Art Hackney, co-chair of Nikki Haley’s Alaska campaign, posits a theory after her loss to Donald Trump to explain what’s come over Republicans in Alaska and beyond.
“We live in a world where a substantial number of people have lost their minds,” he said.
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Dozens of West Point graduates are demanding that Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman resign from office over his ties to a right-wing extremist group, saying his affiliation has betrayed the values of the U.S. Military Academy he attended.
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The iconic Igloo building, halfway between Anchorage and Fairbanks on the Parks Highway, is planned to reopen as the Wolf Dog Distillery with a restaurant and bar.
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Environmental group to sue Trump administration over Pacific walrus via
@MrsLizbethJ
@AKEnergyDesk
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Alaska’s U.S. senators were among 22 Republicans who joined most Democrats on final passage on a $95 billion foreign aid package.
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The Anchorage Assembly agreed last night to add to city code a process for it to remove a mayor for breaching the public trust.
A breach of public trust could include perjury, asking a municipal employee to break the law or falsifying records.
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Across Alaska, Indigenous women have told Quannah Chasinghorse that it marks an important turning point in how Alaska Natives are portrayed in the fashion industry and in mainstream media.
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Painted sneakers designed by Wrangell High School students have won at least $15,000 for the school’s art program and now have a chance to win more than triple that. The Southeast Alaska community is rallying around the effort.
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She didn't need to win to prove anything. She just needed to eat hundreds of pounds of salmon so she could survive hibernation. But the bear known as 128 Grazer chomped and she romped, and now she is a Fat Bear Week champion.
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Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe, has voiced passionate opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. As a congresswoman-elect in 2018, she spoke at an anti-drilling rally in front of the U.S. Capitol.
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Soldotna butcher Echo Lake Meats closes at 6 p.m. weekdays — but its new meat vending machine is open 24/7.
“It’s a little awkward for some people to think about getting a steak out of a machine, but it’s really safe,” said owner Erick Watkins.
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Hours before polls were to open, the state Division of Elections announced there would be no polling places in six rural Alaska villages for Tuesday’s primary election.
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During nearly five hours of public testimony on Gov. Mike Dunleavy's "parental rights" bill Thursday night, the vast majority of participants spoke against the bill, saying it could put LGBTQ+ students at risk at school and at home.
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In a newly obtained video, Alaska Gov. Dunleavy’s pro-family adviser described supporters of abortion rights as “demonically possessed.” The speech wasn’t reviewed before it aired, raising further questions about oversight of the since-resigned aide.
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Congresswoman Peltola returned to a U.S. House trying to elect a new speaker today. As she cast her vote, members on both sides of the aisle rose to give her a standing ovation.
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More than 20 endangered sea lions have been found dead in the Copper River Delta this summer, many with gunshot wounds.
The National Marine Fisheries Service has now quadrupled the reward for information on the illegal killings to $20,000.
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After a student was mistakenly kept from wearing a seal-skin graduation cap, Anchorage School District officials say they'll re-examine the practice of making students get permission to wear cultural regalia at graduation ceremonies.
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Heather MacAlpine started investigating complaints about the Anchorage Library’s Deputy Director Judy Eledge in April.
Soon after, MacAlpine was fired.
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act Thursday. ruling 7-2 that the law does not discriminate on the basis of race and does not impermissibly impose a federal mandate on traditionally state-regulated areas of power.
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“I saw our Lingít language on the plane and heard everyone on the plane say ‘X̱áat Ḵwáani,’” said artist Crystal Worl. “I just feel immensely proud. There’s no English words for how I feel right now.”
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If you need to Google something today, you might see a familiar face.
The tech company’s Doodle of the day is of Alaska Native civil rights icon Elizabeth Peratrovich.
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