At the end of last year, the council that regulates Alaska's lucrative federal fisheries eliminated the seat of one of its key Alaska Native panel members; Alaska health officials have announced the state's first case of a mutant strain of COVID-19 first detected in South Africa; and the COVID-19 pandemic has driven a boom in the world of Indigenous earring makers in Alaska.
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