Tlingit and Haida cancels food distribution due to federal funding cuts
Hoonah Head Start students try herring eggs. (Courtesy of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)
Springtime is herring egg season in Southeast Alaska. Usually that means that the region’s largest tribal government would be setting up to deliver tens of thousands of pounds of the traditional food to tribal citizens across the region and beyond.
But this year, those distributions won’t happen.
The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida India