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Joaqlin Estus

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Sockeye salmon strips hang in a smokehouse on the Kuskokwim River at Yukon Delta Refuge. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS, courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Court sides with federal agencies in subsistence lawsuit

By Joaqlin EstusJun 27, 2022

The monthly magazine Alaska Business lists an Alaska Native regional corporation in first place among the state's businesses based on gross revenues. The Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, or ASRC, had revenues of $3.5 billion in 2020. ASRC, or the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, which runs petroleum refining and oil field support services, and other operations, has offices in Anchorage, shown here.

Tempers flare over definition of tribes, Alaska Native corporations

By Joaqlin EstusJun 22, 2022

Cherokee Nation, Lawsuit, Opioid Addiction

Opioid settlements to bring hundreds of millions to tribes

By Joaqlin EstusJun 17, 2022

Happy to be together in person again, left to right: NCAI Southern Plains Vice-President Gonzo Flores, Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas; Great Plains Vice-President:Harold Frazier, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe; and Northeast Vice-President Lance Gumbs, Shinnecock Indian Nation of New York, at the National Congress of American Indians mid-year conference, Dena'Ina Convention Center in Anchorage, AK on June 13, 2022 (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)

NCAI heads into midyear conference short its CEO

By Joaqlin EstusJun 14, 2022

Congress, U.S. Capitol

Four Alaska Natives vie for sole congressional seat

By Joaqlin EstusJun 8, 2022

"President Nez joins President Biden for the signing of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Bill," wrote Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez on Twitter, Nov. 15, 2021. (Photo courtesy Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, Twitter)

Released: Tribal playbook to infrastructure dollars

By Joaqlin EstusJun 1, 2022

Sockeye salmon strips hang in a smokehouse on the Kuskokwim River at Yukon Delta Refuge. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS, courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Federal government sues Alaska over subsistence

By Joaqlin EstusMay 26, 2022

William Tyson Elementary School principal John Kito stands in the school’s lobby in front of artwork made for the school by Southeast Alaska artist Nathan Jackson. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Tlingit John Kito retires after 57 years in education

By Joaqlin EstusMay 24, 2022

A local dam that holds water fed by a well in the watershed area of the Chuska Mountains provides water for wild horses and herds of cattle. All across the Navajo Nation, communities have been impacted by the low rainfall and snowpack because of drought caused by climate change. (Photo by Pauly Denetclaw for Indian Country Today)

Coordinated response needed to respond to climate change effects on tribes

By Joaqlin EstusMay 22, 2022

Shown here: Donlin Gold's base camp near Crooked Creek, in western Alaska, the site of what would be one of the world's largest gold mines. (Photo courtesy of Donlin Gold).

Alaska affirms water certificate for proposed Donlin mine

By Joaqlin EstusMay 17, 2022

Jim LaBelle, Navy whites, n.d. (Courtesy of Jim LaBelle)

Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans hopeful for new lands

By Joaqlin EstusMay 11, 2022

Tiberius Newbill holding a poster from hospital staff with parents Tasha and Enrico Newbill, at Seattle Children’s Hospital Cancer Ward on 11/16/21, the day of Tiberius' first transplant (Photo courtesy of Tasha Newbill)

Inupiaq boy hopes for life-saving stem cell transplant

By Joaqlin EstusMay 9, 2022

NPR-A, National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A) in Alaska map (Courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management).

Arctic Inupiaq leaders take aim at Biden oil policy

By Joaqlin EstusMay 5, 2022

Banners hoisted at the Rosebud Indian Reservation bring attention to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and to recognize the #MMIWBIKERUNUSA2021. The relay went through Rosebud on Sept. 4-5, 2021, on the way to Washington, D.C. (Photo by Vi Waln for Indian Country Today)

MMIWG 2022 Day events

By Joaqlin EstusMay 2, 2022

Dr. Gordon L. Pullar Sr., a longtime Alutiiq educator and author in Alaska, died April 18, 2022, after a long illness. (Photo courtesy of Gordon L. Pullar Jr.)

Alutiiq educator, author Gordon Pullar Sr. dead at 78

By Joaqlin EstusApr 26, 2022

Vietnam Veteran Nelson Angapak Sr., Yup’ik and a former vice president of the Alaska Federation of Natives, speaks with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, on April 21, 2022, at the Bureau of Land Management office in Anchorage, Alaska, shortly after she announced that 28 million acres of land would be open for selection by Vietnam-era veterans for Native allotments. (Photo by Joaqlin Estus/Indian Country Today)

Interior opens allotments for Alaska Native Vietnam vets

By Joaqlin EstusApr 26, 2022

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (July 6, 2016) - An aerial view of ships moored at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for Rim of the Pacific 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy Combat Camera photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Ace Rheaume/Released) 160706-N-SI773-499

Honolulu: Military fuel leak, drought, water crisis

By Joaqlin EstusApr 18, 2022

The Three Affiliated Tribes operates a gas station, shown here on March 29, 2022, bearing signage of Houston-based Marathon Oil. The company considers the Bakken shale in North Dakota one of its top four competitive oil plays in the United States. (Photo by Jodi Rave Spotted Bear/Buffalo's Fire)

Gasoline prices hurting consumers

By Joaqlin EstusApr 16, 2022

In this May 7, 2020 photo provided by Aaron Watson, the sun sets over Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut territory in far north Canada. Iqaluit has a population of about 7,000 people, many of whom are Inuit. Watson says, so far, there are no cases of coronavirus in the town. (AP Photo via Aaron Watson)

Clean water on the horizon for Iqaluit

By Joaqlin EstusApr 12, 2022

The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress and the nation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Alaska Natives running in crowded congressional race

By Joaqlin EstusApr 8, 2022

Lake Mead (by Chris Richards, courtesy of Creative Commons)

Climate change elevates environmental inequities

By Joaqlin EstusApr 7, 2022

Alaska State Capitol, Juneau

Alaska Supreme Court rules against gerrymandering

By Joaqlin EstusMar 28, 2022

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Alaska Natives ready for a Native candidate to step forward

By Joaqlin EstusMar 24, 2022

Town view, Iqaluit, Nunavut (by Timothy Neesam, GumshoePhotos, courtesy of Creative Commons)

Nunavut capital struggles to fix water system

By Joaqlin EstusMar 23, 2022

Benny Benson, designer of Alaska's flag, Seward, ca. 1927. Courtesy of Alaska State Archives.

Research reveals errors about Alaska Native designer of state flag

By Joaqlin EstusMar 17, 2022

Pribilof Islands

Remote tribe seeks co-management of marine resources

By Joaqlin EstusMar 16, 2022

Community house on the agency near Vineland Bay on Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota. (Photo courtesy of Turtle Talk)

Mille Lacs: ‘Our reservation was never diminished’

By Joaqlin EstusMar 10, 2022

Campaign manager Alex Murphy helped submit boxes of tribal recognition initiative petition signature booklets to the State Division of Elections in Anchorage on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. On March 1, the Lt. Governor certified enough signatures had been gathered to get the issue on the Nov. 8 ballot. (Photo by Bill Roth, Anchorage Daily News)

Alaska state recognition of tribes will be on ballot

By Joaqlin EstusMar 3, 2022

Margaret Nakak, Inupiaq and Yup'ik, wearing a muskrat parka trimmed with mink, fox, beaver, and wolverine, at Alaska Native Heritage Center, Feb. 9, 2022 (Photo by Joaqlin Estus)

Ancient art of fur sewing continues

By Joaqlin EstusFeb 24, 2022

Pictured: Alaska Native civil rights activist Elizabeth Peratrovich, Tlingit.

Tlingit activist Elizabeth Peratrovich celebrated

By Joaqlin EstusFeb 16, 2022

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US senators call for comprehensive Arctic strategy

By Joaqlin EstusFeb 14, 2022

Pictured: Reburial Committee joyfully completes second reburial of six ancestors on March 14, 2020 at Sacred Springs Reburial Grounds in San Marcos, TX. Left to right: Yoli Arellano, Salina Arellano, Rudy Leyva, Lucia Carmona, Adam Alejandro, Carlos Aceves, Rodney Garza, Krisolito Garza, Maria Rocha, Karla Lara, Mike Ferraro, Ome Tlaloc, Dr. Mario Garza).

Changes coming to better handle Native human remains

By Joaqlin EstusFeb 9, 2022

My Public Lands Roadtrip: Dalton Highway in Alaska The Dalton Highway starts north of Fairbanks, Alaska, and extends more than 400 miles north to the Prudhoe Bay. The highway is very much a working road, although tourist visits are still very high. The highway crosses through incredible scenery, including Mount Sukakpak, located 30 miles north of Coldfoot Camp. BLMer Bob Wick says of the Mount Sukakpak, “It is an iconic peak along the corridor and one of the most spectacular mountains I have ever photographed.” The BLM manages much of the Dalton Highway corridor and has a number of popular wayside exhibits, an interagency visitor center and campgrounds. Photo by Bob Wick, BLM. July 4, 2014.

Tribes object to exclusion from subsistence meeting

By Joaqlin EstusFeb 2, 2022

"Long Weekend," ink, oil, acrylic on paper by Andrea Carlson, 2012, Photo by Rik Sferra

$50K each goes to 10 Indigenous artists

By Joaqlin EstusJan 26, 2022

Shown here: Donlin Gold's base camp near Crooked Creek, in western Alaska, the site of what would be one of the world's largest gold mines. (Photo courtesy of Donlin Gold).

Proposed Alaska gold mine worries area tribes

By Joaqlin EstusJan 20, 2022

Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan. talks to the media after depositing her advance ballot in a dropbox Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, in Mission, Kan. Davids is facing Republican Amanda Adkins in the Kansas 3rd congressional race. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Redistricting: Removing Native voices

By Carina Dominguez, Joaqlin Estus, Chris Aadland and Mark TrahantJan 13, 2022

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the House Democratic Caucus meeting to provide updates about the Build Back Better agenda and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, Thursday, October 28, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

Joe Biden reduces Alaska lands available for development

By Joaqlin EstusJan 11, 2022

Pictured: Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. was among leaders who spoke with President Biden August 11 during a White House virtual meeting on the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

‘Pots of money’ out of reach for some

By Joaqlin EstusJan 6, 2022

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A look back at 2021

By Joaqlin EstusJan 3, 2022

COASTAL EROSION Shishmaref 060602-A-A1410-1025 - People walk past a building collapsing into the shoreline in Shishmaref, Alaska, on June 2, 2006. The village, an Iñupiat village of about 575 people located on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, is among several Alaska Native villages facing imminent devastation from climate change. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

On the edge and nowhere to go

By Joaqlin EstusDec 28, 2021

Circled, William Paul, Sr., (left) and brother Louis Paul (rt), Alaska Native Brotherhood at Grand Camp Convention, 1929, Haines. (Photo courtesy Paul family).

The father of Alaska Native land claims

By Joaqlin EstusDec 22, 2021

Arctic military - An F-16C Falcon from the 18th Aggressor Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, flies over a mountain range in Alaska during an exercise evolution that is a part of Northern Edge 2011. The U.S. Pacific Command directed exercise is taking place in the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex and has brought together nearly 6,000 participants from the U.S. Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard. Corps, Navy and Coast Guard.
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Photo by Lt.j.g. Joe Painter

Date Taken:06.16.2011

Location: EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, AK, US

Arctic defense a high priority for military

By Joaqlin EstusDec 20, 2021

Alaska Federation of Natives in 2013. (Office of Governor Sean Parnell, Flickr)

Alaska Federation of Natives convention starts Monday

By Joaqlin EstusDec 13, 2021

USS Arizona Memorial Garden at Salt River. (Photo courtesy of Discover Salt River)

Salt River remembers USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

By Joaqlin EstusDec 7, 2021

Congress, U.S. Capitol

Bills that would protect Native voting rights linger

By Joaqlin EstusDec 3, 2021

In this Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, photo, a man picks up a package at the post office in Toksook Bay, Alaska. The first Americans to be counted in the 2020 Census starting Tuesday, Jan. 21, live in this Bering Sea coastal village. The Census traditionally begins earlier in Alaska than the rest of the nation because frozen ground allows easier access for Census workers, and rural Alaska will scatter with the spring thaw to traditional hunting and fishing grounds. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Critics accuse Alaska Redistricting Board of gerrymandering

By Joaqlin EstusNov 29, 2021

Honoring Nations: Blue Lake Rancheria residential solar project. (Courtesy of Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe)

Honors for tribal excellence, innovation in tribal governance

By Joaqlin EstusNov 27, 2021

Yukon River freezing up at Pilot Station, AK(Credit: Ryan Toohey, USGS Alaska Climate Science Center. Public domain.)

In Alaska: Seven stranded hunters rescued

By Joaqlin EstusNov 8, 2021

With their slate of Census-related activities curtailed by the COVID-19 outbreak, tribal government officials on the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation had to shift gears. A drive-thru Census event in June in Warm Springs encouraged members to participate in the tally while maintaining social distancing. (Photo by Brutis Baez/KWSO-FM.)

US Census explains American Indian, Alaska Native numbers

By Joaqlin EstusNov 2, 2021

Sign at the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association annual conference held near Phoenix in Oct. 2021. (Screenshot from video by Patty Talahongva, Indian Country Today)

Indigenous tourism an economic ‘powerhouse’

By Joaqlin EstusNov 2, 2021

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