The Aleut Corporation is returning to the Alaska Federation of Natives after withdrawing from the group three years ago due to a a fisheries dispute.
The regional Native corporation for the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands left the Alaska’s largest statewide Native organization in 2022 over a debate centered on salmon declines in the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers — a disaster that some tribal delegations blame on commercial fisheries in the Aleutians and Pribilofs.
In protest, the corporation’s delegation stood and turned their backs during conference proceedings. Soon after, its board voted to withdraw from AFN…