The tribes submitted a brief on Feb. 19 to the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights accusing Canada of violating their human rights, including their right to a healthy environment.
At the mouth of the Unuk River near Ketchikan, there is a very old petroglyph. According to Lee Wagner of Metlakatla, the rising sun painted onto a rock above the river is thousands of years old and it’s a family crest.
The tribal coalition is known as the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission, or SEITC. When the mine closed in 2007, Archibald saw the populations of hooligan, a beloved subsistence fish also known as oligan and eulachon, begin to rebound. But the once productive hooligan fishery in the Unuk River has remained closed to non-subsistence users by the state Department of Fish and Game since the population collapse in 2005.“Jewelry, and its investment,” he said.
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