The organization also supported continued predator control to boost the Mulchatna caribou herd and called for an independent investigation into Alaska Native incarceration deaths, among other actions.
Delegates listen to Cook Inlet Region, Inc. CEO Sophie Minich deliver the keynote address during the Alaska Federation of Natives convention on Thursday at the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage.
The resolution didn’t provide specific details about what steps Congress might take, but attorneys representing Alaska Native interests haveThe Alaska Federation of Natives, which has intervened in the case on the side of the federal government, has said the state is attacking a key subsistence right that gives rural residents who are mostly Alaska Natives a fishing priority in times of shortage.
Stosh Hoffman, an Alaska Native from Bethel who serves on the seven-member Board of Game, was on hand for the AFN vote. Hoffman said the predator control program is a factor the state can control, unlike climate change, which is often cited as a reason for the falling herd numbers. He said the program is limited to small areas, only the calving grounds, targeting bears that have learned to take advantage of the calving.lawsuits against the state challenging the predator-control program.
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