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Author: Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News

A pot of vegetable and moose stew. What are you having for American Thanksgiving this year? (iStock)
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Walrus and moose, salmon and berries: It’s Thanksgiving in Western Alaska

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 14:32 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 22:02
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BETHEL — Across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Wednesday, the turkeys were thawing – and so was the moose and walrus,

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Platinum mine criminal charges a first for Alaska

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, November 21, 2014 at 16:35 — Last Updated: Monday, November 24, 2014 at 21:32
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BETHEL – Back in August 2011, a federal biologist on a routine flight to survey salmon numbers was taken aback

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Stanley Hoffman spoke at Calista's shareholder meeting in Bethel on Nov. 12. He said Calista doesn't have the money to support expanding its rolls to descendants. (Lisa Demer / ADN)
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Alaska Native corp. to vote on whether to enroll descendants as shareholders

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, November 17, 2014 at 21:02 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 20:48
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BETHEL — A proposal to open up membership in a Western Alaska regional Native corporation to children and grandchildren of shareholders is raising questions

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Jill Kaasteen Meserve, 23, of Juneau, performs with the Woosh.ji.een Dance and Drum Group at the First Alaskans Institute Elders and Youth Conference on Wednesday. Meserve said she supported a bill passed this year recognizing 20 Alaska Native languages as official state languages. (Lisa Demer / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Alaska bill to be signed recognizing indigenous languages as official state languages

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 19:11 — Last Updated: Friday, October 24, 2014 at 21:27
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If the legislation to recognize 20 Alaska Native languages as official state languages was wrought with emotion, the ceremony to

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Musher and sobriety activist Mike Williams, left, elder John Phillip and Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell in Bethel at a town hall meeting on the marijuana legalization initiative on Sept. 29, 2014. (Lisa Demer / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Bethel, Alaska residents speak out against marijuana legalization

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 14:50 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 20:01
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BETHEL – A small, mainly anti-pot crowd on Monday filled the tiny Legislative Information Office here to put on the

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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