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INVESTIGATION ONGOING – Measures in Place to Ensure Public Safety
INVESTIGATION ONGOING – Measures in Place to Ensure Public Safety Kawerak is aware of recent interest on social media and with the press regarding a Kawerak employee. Kawerak originally received a complaint in October. Based on the complaint, Kawerak investigated and addressed [...]
Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area Restored – Tribal Organizations Express Gratitude
One of the first executive actions of President Biden after he assumed the presidential office included the restoration of the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area. The area protection was established originally during the Obama administration, then reversed by the Trump administration. [...]
BLM Issues Final Hour Decision Threatening Subsistence Lands – Kawerak Continues to Pursue Protections
January 19th the BLM released a full Record of Decision officially denying protest submitted for the Bering Sea Western Interior Resource Management plan. Both Kawerak Inc and the Native Village of Unalakleet submitted protest responses to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) [...]
NOTICE: WINTER USE AT PILGRIM HOT SPRINGS
January 19, 2021 Public Service Announcement NOTICE: WINTER USE AT PILGRIM HOT SPRINGS To current & future permit holders for Unaatuq, LLC and Pilgrim Hot Springs: Winter use requires a valid access permit for all parties, and is AT YOUR OWN RISK. If [...]
I AM POEM by Yorise (Olson) Yakunin
The Katirvik Cultural Center (KCC) is very grateful to Kawerak for allowing departments to be placements for summer interns. In the summer of 2020, the KCC was privileged to host Yorise (Olson) Yakunin as a summer intern. Yorise generously shared a little about [...]
Quarter 4, 2021 – Employee and Team of the Quarter
We are pleased to announce our award winners for Employees of the Quarter and Team of the Quarter for Quarter 4, October - December 2021! Employees of the Quarter Andrea Blanchette - CAC Clinician Andrea has been doing many tasks in addition [...]
Kawerak Leadership Denounces Domestic Terrorist Attack
A special message from Kawerak Inc. President Melanie Bahnke: On behalf of Kawerak, Inc., I denounce the actions taken upon our nation’s capital by domestic terrorists on Wednesday. The actions that occurred were a violation of our nation’s core and what true [...]
Shannon Named 2020 Environmental Leader
Please join us in congratulating Kawerak's Environmental Program Director, Anahma Shannon. She was recently awarded the 2020 Environmental Leader Award by the Alaska Tribal Conference on Environmental Management. The Environmental Leader Award is awarded to an established tribal environmental professional who demonstrates [...]
BLM Releases Resource Management Plan for millions of acres of land near Elim, Koyuk, Shaktoolik, Unalakleet, Saint Michael, and Stebbins
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the revised Resource Management Plan (RMP), for the Bering Sea Western Interior (BSWI) which will affect western Alaska for decades to come. The plan, released on December 4th, can be downloaded at, https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36665/570. The plan opens undeveloped [...]
Bahnke Receives 2020 Howard Rock Leadership Award
We are so proud to share that Kawerak President Melanie Bahnke was awarded First Alaskans Institute's prestigious Howard Rock Alaska Native Leadership Award for 2020. The award states, "Akighqukaaghaq is called upon often by our community to advocate on behalf of Arctic [...]
New Grant Makes Young Engineers
A recent four million dollar grant award project funded by the U.S. Department of Education will bring new opportunities for an estimated 2,680 Alaska Native Students in engineering education over the next four years. The collaborative project between Kawerak Inc and NACTEC [...]
Kawerak and BSNC nominate Loretta Bullard to co-chair AFN
Oct. 9, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kawerak and BSNC nominate Loretta Bullard to co-chair AFN (Nome, Alaska) –Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC) and Kawerak, Inc. are pleased to jointly announce their nomination of Loretta Ublugiaq Bullard as Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) [...]
