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Office of Special Prosecutions Completes Review of Officer-Involved Shooting in Utqiagvik - Alaska Native News

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(Anchorage, AK) – The Office of Special Prosecutions completed its review of an officer-involved shooting from Feb. 24, 2025, involving Akugaq Leavitt and North Slope Borough Police Department (NSBPD) Officers Donovan Chappell, John-Ashton Swope, and Mark Pelia in Utqiagvik. The review determined that Officer Chappell was justified in his use of deadly force against Mr. Leavitt, […] The post Office of Special Prosecutions Completes Review of Off…Read Article

Bowhead Whaling Bans, Environmental Activism, and Adaptation Among Iñupiat Peoples in Alaska, 1977-1981

This is the ninth post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series, introduced here by series editor Shannon Stunden Bower. On a cool and unusually crisp day in August 1977, Harry Brower, Sr., sat solemnly at his desk in Utqiagvik, Alaska, deliberating the dubious future of the bowhead whale hunt. Since approximately 800 A.D., populations of Iñupiat people residing in what now constitutes the North Slope Borough (NSB) had utilized toggle-head h…Utqiagvik · Utqiagvik Read Article

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