LATEST NEWS
Arctic Watch Marine Traffic Workshop Report
Check out the findings from the Arctic Watch Marine Traffic Workshop 2024. Tribal delegates from across the Bering Strait region attended the workshop in Juneau to shape a marine vessel traffic management system for the Bering Strait waterway. Key overarching themes emerged [...]
RFP: Shishmaref Shoreline Tar Barrel Removal Project
Kawerak, Inc.’s Contaminated Sites Program seeks a contractor to test the soil on site after the barrels have been removed and to compose documentation and reports for the brownfield site known as the “Shishmaref Shoreline Tar Barrel Site’. The barrels were buried [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
