In a story published this morning on FoxNews.com, Thomas Catenacci reported on how Alaska Native leaders traveled to Washington, D.C. in recent weeks to testify about the administration’s actions that are forcing the residents of their region to “become conservation refugees on [their] own land.”On November 8, Alaska Native leaders also held a press conference on the same issues with U.S. Sens. It’s insulting,” said Josiah Patkotak, mayor of Alaska’s North Slope Borough, at the press conference in November. Both actions were taken without notice to or meaningful consultation with the Alaska Native communities most impacted by these decisions. "The North Slope Iñupiat deserve to be more than an afterthought by the federal government," Harcharek said earlier in November. "Roughly 95% of our region’s tax base comes from taxation on the development of land on the North Slope," added Patkotak.

Source: Fox News December 02, 2023 04:42 UTC