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Can't get to Anchorage? Here's where to follow AFN

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Anchorage Daily News

Posted: October 17, 2009 - 2:57 pm

The 44th annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention starts next week. Here's the agenda. If you can't make it to convention center, there's plenty of ways to follow the action:

TV
GCI Channel 1 will air both the Elders & Youth Conference (agenda here), starting Monday, and the AFN convention, beginning Thursday.

RADIO
KNBA 90.3 FM is covering the convention, along with partner stations across the state, according to its Web site. Speaking of which ...

ONLINE
Look for streaming convention coverage on AFN's Web site, www.nativefederation.org.

KNBA also plans to broadcast its coverage online at www.knba.org.

Sorry the blog's been a little slow this week. Been trying to prepare for AFN. Lots of interviews, and lots of signals that subsistence is going to be a centerpiece issue again this year. Major changes being proposed to the way the subsistence hunting & fishing are regulated.

What else is going to be big? Energy & fuel costs again? Tribal sovereignty? Climate change/erosion?

And finally, totally unrelated, here's some Native Youth Olympics photos out of Bethel. Thanks to Tommy Bayayok.

Photo by Tommy Bayayok
Jeanine N. of Gladys Jung Elementary School in Bethel successfully kicks the ball in the 2 foot high kick. On Friday, G.J.E.S. hosted a Jr. NYO meet for 5th and 6th grade students from Gladys Jung Elementary and Ayaprun Elitnaurvik.

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Photo by Tommy Bayayok
Elishah N. of Ayaprun Elitnaurvik competes in the 1 foot high kick at the GJES Jr. Native Youth Olympic dual meet between Ayaprun Elitnaurvik and Gladys Jung Elementary School.