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Trainee Celebrates First Teacher Appreciation Week as Teacher

As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, we want to take a moment to recognize Sierra Aningayou,  a recent trainee who worked hard and challenged herself to get her teacher title in the Early Head Start class room with Kawerak’s Head Start.  Sierra’s [...]

By |May 6th, 2025|Categories: Education, Employment and Training, Highlight|

Heavy Equipment Course Prepares Eight New Trainees

This past week, April 7-11, 8 regional trainees completed Heavy Equipment Operation training in Nome. The training was hosted by Kawerak's Workforce Development Program (formerly known as Employment and Training) in partnership with Northern Industrial Training (NIT), Northwestern Alaska Career and Technical [...]

By |April 14th, 2025|Categories: Employment and Training, Highlight|

Tribal Members from Kawerak region share powerful testimony at North Pacific Fishery Management Council

Photo: Testifiers' subsistence activities Salmon are a vital part of the food security, culture, and wellbeing in the Kawerak region. Salmon stocks continue to decline, and subsistence harvests of Chum continue to be restricted, yet the commercial offshore pollock trawl is not [...]

By |March 18th, 2025|Categories: Advocacy, Press Releases, Social Science|

Kawerak Comments on Board of Game Proposals 2025

On Monday March 3rd Kawerak submitted comments to the Alaska Board of Game proposals for 2025. Kawerak is committed to prioritizing and protecting subsistence rights, and the access and ability for our tribal members to participate in subsistence activities. To advocate on behalf [...]

By |March 3rd, 2025|Categories: Advocacy, Natural Resources|

Resolution Opposing Uranium Mining Development near Elim by Kawerak Board of Directors

On December 17, 2024 the Kawerak Board of Directors passed Resolution 2024-23, a resolution in opposition to the development of uranium mining on or near the Boulder Creek area on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. A Canadian mining company, Panther Minerals AK [...]

By |February 24th, 2025|Categories: Advocacy|

From Herding to Harvesting: Economic Infrastructure links Savoonga’s beginnings to the Community’s Future

On January 16th, three reindeer herders from Savoonga embarked on an international journey to Finland. Representing the Savoonga Reindeer Commercial Company (SRCC), a for-profit tribally-owned organization established by the Native Village of Savoonga, their mission was to explore innovative reindeer husbandry practices [...]

By |February 20th, 2025|Categories: Business, Community Planning and Development|

Kawerak Offers Support for Advocacy Efforts in the Bering Strait Region

Kawerak is offering travel scholarships to Bering Strait Region Tribal Members interested in traveling to Anchorage February 7-10 to provide in-person testimony at the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) meeting regarding Chum Bycatch in the pollock fishery. In preparation for the February [...]

By |January 10th, 2025|Categories: Advocacy, Subsistence|

RFP: Brownfields Clean Up and Planning Project

Kawerak Request for Proposal: Brownfields Cleanup & Planning Project DUE March 14, 2025 Kawerak, Inc.’s Environmental Program seeks a contractor to address four sites within the Bering Strait Region and conduct a series of assessments, meetings, plans and two cleanups. This project will [...]

By |January 9th, 2025|Categories: RFP|

Kawerak, Association of Village Council Presidents, and Bering Sea Elders Group Appreciate Protections for Their Waters from Oil and Gas Leasing

On January 6, 2025 President Joe Biden used his authority under section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to permanently withdraw areas in the Northern Bering Sea from oil and gas leasing. President Obama created the Bering Sea Climate [...]

By |January 6th, 2025|Categories: Advocacy, Marine|



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