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Angoon legislator, community leader Albert Kookesh dies at 72

Angoon legislator, community leader Albert Kookesh dies at 72
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Alaska Native veterans of Vietnam War, heirs would receive state land under Gov Dunleavy proposal

By Andrew Kitchenman (KTOO and Alaska Public Media) • 4 hours ago Army veteran George Bennett of Sitka speaks at the announcement of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposal to provide state land to Alaska Native veterans of the Vietnam era on May 5, 2021, in Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Walter Soboleff Building. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media) Dunleavy said many veterans or their heirs would be able to receive land that’s closer to their homes than they would receive under a federal program.  A 2019 federal law would allow Alaska Native veterans to receive 160-acre allotments of government land. It took until late in the Trump administration to write the rules to put the program into effect. The Biden administration recently delayed a Trump administration order to increase the land eligible to become allotments under the program.

Journey of the Freckled Indian - Indian Country Today

‘Journey of the Freckled Indian’ A children’s book and upcoming series by Tlingit writer Alyssa London challenge misconceptions about Indigenous identity Author: May 4, 2021 Alyssa London, Tlingit, who won the Miss Alaska USA pageant in 2017, has written a children s book about growing up in a multicultural family, Journey of the Freckled Indian. A series of books and a television shows is now planned. (Photo courtesy of Alyssa London) A children’s book and upcoming series by Tlingit writer Alyssa London challenge misconceptions about Indigenous identity Richard Arlin Walker When Alyssa London, Tlingit, was growing up, she didn’t meet her peers’ expectations of what an Indigenous person would look like.

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