Blog Posts from dixie.hutchinson

2016 Q3 CEO Letter

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

A significant part of the success created to date and the ability to sustain business improvements into the future is a commitment to operate within relevant industries that address critical issues of water, marine habitat and food. Our plan to invest in businesses that fit with our Native values and knowledge resonates with our shareholders and business partners. This long-term commitment will allow our values to attract quality business opportunities and provide a competitive advantage as...read more

Sealaska Business Update

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

LEAD SUBSIDIARY: SEALASKA CONSTRUCTORS, LLC
LOCATION: MARYLAND
Sealaska Constructors is partnering with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Pearce Creek Dredge Material Containment Field. The property holds Chesapeake and Delaware Canal dredged material. Sealaska Constructors is preparing a containment liner at the 250-acre site with a synthetic membrane that will hold approximately 4.0 million cubic yards of dredged material since the 1930s. The image shows an...read more

Connecting with Culture at Kasaan Whale House

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

The original Whale House was built in 1880 in Old Kasaan. In 1938, the clan house was rebuilt and stands in new Kasaan, about a mile from where the first house was built. The Whale House includes a frontal pole with eight additional restored and original poles.

Frederick Olsen is the tribal vice president of the Organized Village of Kasaan. Olsen says most likely the eight totem poles were originally carved in 1880 in Old Kasaan and brought to the new Whale House site.

The only...read more

Breaking Ground on a New Long House in Hydaburg

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

Landless and Native Veterans Legislative Update

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

Current efforts include:
• S. 3273 - Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2016 (ANCSA technical amendments package) introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski, July 14, 2016 (combines H.R. 2387, S.872 and other bills into a package). Originally introduced as S. 3004 on May 26, 2016.
• H.R. 2387 and S. 1955 - Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act introduced by Congressman Don Young in the House and Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa...read more

Sealaska Endorses Murkowski and Young

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

Sealaska and the board support U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski in her re-election. She has worked tirelessly to advocate and advance policy impacting Alaska Natives and rural Alaska. She chairs the Senate Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, which appropriate funds for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service. She is a senior member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, on which she has served for the past 13 years. She is chair of the Senate...read more

Standing with Standing Rock

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

Sealaska applauds and support the efforts of Standing Rock leadership, which is taking great measures to protect its precious resources and connection to land. That support is the form of a Sealaska board resolution that directors unanimously approved at a September 16, 2016 meeting. The resolution titled, Woocheen - Standing with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Nation, acknowledges the tribe’s effort to preserve the environmental integrity of the water and resources on its reservation....read more

Field Trip with Sealaska

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

During the botanical presentation, one of the teacher/chaperones asked: “How is this information important to these students – why should they know?” “At this point in their educational development, it is for fun and basic awareness,” said Girt. “But in my career, I had to learn and know the difference between species to be able to assess the value of timber stands when they are of commercial size. Some species tend to be more valuable than others. Knowing the difference between a red...read more

Working Together in the Tongass

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

Efforts to move southeast Alaska timber industry to a young growth program is taking shape at the local level. Sealaska is committed to workforce development opportunities. One recent example, are efforts by Haa Aaní Economic Development and the Sustainable Southeast Partnership (SSP), that worked with USFS and the State of Alaska for a two-week forestry academy. Eight participants spent two weeks developing forestry skills such as timber inventory, logging operability, protection of fisher...read more

Helping Salmon Return Home

Submitted 1 year 10 months ago by dixie.hutchinson.

This important work was documented and coverage is linked below.

Sealaska Constructors removed several large boulders in the Elwha River in the Olympic National Park. This allowed salmon to return to their historic habitat for the first time in more than 100 years. The Elwha Dam was built in the early 1900s. The full Elwha ecosystem restoration project hopes to restore what was once a legendary King Salmon run.

Sealaska’s work addressing critical issues of water, marine systems...read more