The Alaska Native villages had sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over a telecommunications grant issued without their approval.
issued roughly $70 million in grant fundingTwo companies, Mukluk Telephone Company, Inc. and Interior Telephone Company, collectively working under Fastwyre Broadband, planned projects in Elim and Unalakleet., they were required to obtain tribal consent.
An attorney representing Elim and Unalakleet called the ruling “a huge vindication of Tribal sovereign rights,” in an email to KNOM.
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