Julie Kitka

Alaska is one-fifth the landmass of the entire United States. A centralized system with inadequate funding over such vast distances just doesn’t work.

AFN looks forward to continuing work with the federal and state governments to mitigate this crisis and take the badly needed steps toward building solid capacity and local control.

Many Alaskans are wondering whether Alaskans were in the room, let alone the driver’s seat, when the administration’s policies were crafted.

Annual gathering of Alaska Federation of Natives, this year in Anchorage, is a reunion, celebration, forum, business meeting and political process.

OPINION: The Alaska Legislature shouldn't wait to pass SB91/HB205 and improve our criminal justice system and restore rural Alaska Native hub communities and villages.

OPINION: When one Alaskan voter is disenfranchised, we are all disenfranchised, and Alaska’s democracy suffers for it.

Gov. Sarah Palin recently announced that she intends to reject $288 million, or about 31 percent, of the $930 million in federal stimulus money available to Alaska.

I don't want to get into a big political fight over the subject of this column, but I cannot allow a fellow Alaska Native to have his reputation tarnished and used as a political football. I am speaking about the former commissioner of public safety, Walt Monegan.

On April 9, one of the radio personalities on the "Woody and Wilcox" show on KBFX 100.5-FM, made brutally offensive racial remarks on the morning show. The two were bantering about what it means to be a real Alaskan. One asked the question "Have you ever made love to the Yukon River or peed in a Native woman?"