Author: Sage Smiley

15 Southeast Tribes seek involvement as sovereign nations in Canadian mine permitting processes

More than a dozen Southeast Alaska tribal governments and councils are asking the provincial government of British Columbia to recognize their sovereignty and give them a seat at the decision-making table when natural resource development could impact the communities downstream.

Learning Lingít at lunch

Some Wrangell residents are using their lunchtimes to learn the critically endangered Lingít language – Wrangell’s tribe is sponsoring a year of beginning Lingít classes for adults.

Southeast’s 2022 commercial salmon harvest was half as large last year’s, but worth millions more

Even though the total harvest was half of last year’s (58 million catch), the total value at the docks for Southeast increased by $12 million this year.

Wrangell receives $395,000 from the EPA to purchase an electric school bus

Wrangell students could soon be riding around on the island’s first electric school bus. The community’s school district was selected to receive money from the Environmental Protection Agency to purchase a zero-emission vehicle.

Wrangell economic forum prompts conversations about local inclusion and racism

In late September, Wrangell’s Chamber of Commerce sponsored the economic forum, meant to bring together local economic and political stakeholders, but the five-hour event was marred by a lack of community representation, political grandstanding, and racist remarks.