Postmark: Nov 10,94 4:03 PM Delivered: Nov 11,94 9:57 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-11/11/94
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*The Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) will meet in Anchorage on November 14, 1994, beginning at 8:30am at the Captain Cook Hotel.
*Agenda items for the FSB meeting include the review and discussion of customary and traditional use determinations for the Kenai Peninsula and the upper Tanana River region.
*Another item on the agenda is the “Designated Hunter” option. Debate centers on whether to use existing State of Alaska harvest tags, permits, and licences or shift to a federal harvest permit system. Both options would allow another qualified rural resident to hunt for you.
*This fall, Carol Jorgensen, Regional Coordinator for the southeast Federal Subsistence Advisory Council, was awarded a certificate of merit and cash award for her exemplory work related to the Federal Subsistence Management Program. Carol has been descibed as…”simply an outstanding performer, leader, and person.”
*The Native American Fish and Wildlife Society’s 13th annual National Conference will be held May 1-5, 1995, at the Anchorage Hilton Hotel. Theme for the conference: Native American Resource Management in the North: A discovery of choices, a process for change.
*Subsistence is expected to be a major topic of discussion.
Postmark: Nov 04,94 8:12 AM Delivered: Nov 04,94 9:57 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-11/4/94
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*Written proposals to modify or change proposed 1995-96 Federal subsistence seasons and bag limits regulations may be submitted to the Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) no later than Nov. 11, 1994.
*The Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB) and Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) Grand Camp Convention took place in Juneau during the week of Oct. 24-28th. Subsistence remains their #1 issue, followed by sovereignty and government-to-government relationships.
*1995-96 ANB/ANS Grand Camp Officers elect-Alfred McKinley (ANB Pres); Ernest Jack (ANB First VP); Sam Jackson (ANB Second VP); Andrew Ebona (ANB Secty); Richard Warren (ANB Treas); John Ashenfelter (Sgt at Arms); Millie Stevens (ANS Pres); Donna Ashenfelter (ANS First VP); Kim Strong (ANS Second VP); Jackie Martin (ANS Secty); Gerry Williams (ANS Treas); and Vallery Huston (ANS Sgt at Arms).
*Phil Janik, Alaska Regional Forester, delivered a keynote address to the recent ANB/ANS Grand Camp Convention. In his presentation, he strongly supported enhanced communications and interaction with the Native community at all levels. He was uncertain about where he stood on the issue of co-management. The FSB extended subsistence fishing regulations without change until Dec. 31, 1995.
Postmark: Oct 24,94 8:32 AM Delivered: Oct 28,94 10:00 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-10/28/94
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*George Frampton, Asst. Secty. of Interior, visited the southeast Alaska community of Hoonah to listen to testimony from the Tlingit clans on why they want the return of subsistence rights to Glacier Bay N.P. The people of Hoonah trace their origins to the area, which was made a National Park in 1925.
*Some call subsistence the most deeply divisive issue in Alaska since statehood. Urban interests call for equal access/rights, while the rural Native population claims special protection for the communal practices of subsistence that are at the core of their traditional cultures. This clash of fundamental values is likely to continue regardless of what the courts and legislators may do to resolve the subsistence preference issue.
*In southeast Alaska, the memorial potlatch took place in the late fall or winter, after the completion of most of the subsistence activities. In pre-contact times, gifts were distributed to the opposite clan. These gifts included furs, tanned skins, a few slaves, and large shields (tinaa) made of copper. In the second half of the nineteeth century, these indigenous objects were supplemented and gradually replaced by blankets, bolts of calico and other types of cloth, and money.
