The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s broadband venture, Tidal Network, is building three communications towers in Petersburg with money from a large federal grant. The project has received some community pushback, with some residents questioning the process.
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“It’s very much a superfood to us,” said George Dalton, an elder from Hoonah in Southeast Alaska. “The equivalent of McDonald’s hamburgers — you’d have to eat 24 hamburgers to equal just six ounces of this seal meat, and you’d have to eat 48 hot dogs.”
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A regional tribe wants to buy over 10,000 square feet of Petersburg Borough-owned property near the town’s Fire Hall to build a wireless tower.
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Several borough-owned lots in Petersburg will get utilities in the next year or so. Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority will do the work. In return, the nonprofit will get seven of the lots. The borough will keep the other four.
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For years, the regulations about who could hunt sea otters in Alaska were confusing. Many thought hunters must be at least one-quarter Alaska Native and belong to a coastal tribe. But a recent opinion from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service confirms that any coastal tribal member can hunt sea otters, no matter their blood quantum.
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