A graph comparing Alaska general and prison populations’ proportions of American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) inmates to other states.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/10/04/racial-disparities-among-alaska-native-and-american-indian-inmates-a-troubling-picture/

Along the way, they stop in numerous, largely Alaska Native communities that serve as checkpoints.

Source: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/03/04/news/nation/alaska-iditarod-starting-ceremony/

American Indian or Alaska Native individuals experienced the highest rate of overdose mortality in 2020 (41.4 per 100 000), which was 30.8% higher than that for White individuals.

Source: https://theweedblog.com/advocacy/economic-justice-oregon-hb-3431

Announcement comes days after Alaska Native corporation announces lower shareholder dividends.

Source: https://www.juneauempire.com/news/police-calls-for-monday-nov-6-2023/

Breakdown by race: 74.1% White, 12.9% Black or African American, 11.5% Hispanic or Latino, 6.9% Asian, 0.3% Native American or Alaska Native"

Source: https://wibx950.com/if-you-want-to-live-forever-heres-why-you-should-stay-in-new-york/

Central Alaskan Yup’ik is the largest of the Alaska Native languages, with about 10,000 speakers in 68 villages across southwest Alaska.

Source: https://fortune.com/2023/01/13/fema-translators-typhoon-alaska-yupik-inupiaq-inuktitut/

Millie Schoonover joined the Alaska Native Sisterhood when she was 13. She’s worn plenty of hats in her decades-long run with the Indigenous civil rights group, and now holds what the organization calls its highest elected position.

Source: https://www.krbd.org/2023/02/27/craigs-millie-schoonover-takes-over-as-alaska-native-sisterhoods-new-grand-president-emeritus/

No Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander held a majority interest in 2021, as was also the case in 2019.

Source: https://www.nexttv.com/news/fcc-ownership-diversity-report-shows-not-so-much-diversity

One Alaskans who is looking favorably at Donlin is Willie Hensley, an architect of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and a longtime leader from the NANA region that has benefitted from Red Dog.

Source: https://www.ktoo.org/2023/01/24/donlin-mine-promises-revenue-for-all-alaska-native-corporations-but-critics-point-to-environmental-risks/

Plus, Alaska Native regional corporations seek to have their voices heard in Washington.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/08/01/alaska-news-nightly-tuesday-august-1-2023/

Southeast Alaska Native communities have worked for decades to undo the harms of colonialism.

Source: https://www.ktoo.org/2023/09/01/presbyterian-church-leaders-gather-in-juneau-to-plan-apology-for-1962-church-closure/

The documents were poorly translated into Alaska Native languages Yup’ik and Inupiaq.

Source: https://drgnews.com/2023/01/16/fema-fires-group-for-nonsensical-alaska-native-translations/

The four Alaska Native hosting organizations presented an ocean declaration and asked that it be carried on Hōkūleʻa around the Pacific in hopes that others will sign on to the commitment to care for our oceans.

Source: https://bigislandnow.com/2023/06/16/hundreds-gather-in-alaska-for-global-launch-ceremony-of-hokulea-as-crew-sets-out-on-4-year-voyage-around-the-pacific/

The move was heralded by Alaska Native tribes and environmentalists who have long fought the proposed Pebble Mine.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/01/31/feds-use-rare-veto-to-block-alaska-copper-gold-mine-plan/

The proposed rulemaking would help protect subsistence uses in the NPR-A, responding to Alaska Native communities who have relied on the land, water, and wildlife to support their way of life for thousands of years.

Source: https://www.deltanewsweb.com/2023/03/13/interior-department-substantially-reduces-scope-of-willow-project/

The stakes to enforcement are high: The law also recognizes that Alaska Native people are overrepresented as domestic violence victims by 250%.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/11/13/tribes-state-troopers-increase-access-to-justice-for-alaska-native-survivors-of-domestic-violence/