Wednesday kicked off the 10th annual Alaska Federation of Natives Tribal Conference. The conference, an AFN official says, acts like a prep meeting leading into Thursday’s start of the AFN Convention.
“It’s really grown and expanded over the years to cover a wide array of issues that affect tribes. Sometimes those issues also affect the broader Alaska Native community. But this is really a chance for tribes to come together and deal with tribal issues,” AFN Executive Vice President and General Council Nicole Borromeo said.
“Anytime our right to hunt and fish as we have for centuries and continue to practice our traditional ways of life, anytime that’s threatened, you’ll see the Alaska Native community band together to make sure that we’re doing everything that we can to preserve those rights to pass down to the next generation,” Borromeo said.
“We had thought that we had secured those rights under federal law, and it is now being questioned once again by the state of Alaska,” Borromeo said.
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