{"id":256276,"date":"2025-10-15T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=256276"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:43:57","slug":"native-america-calling-the-road-project-that-could-open-up-a-great-expanse-of-pristine-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/10\/15\/native-america-calling-the-road-project-that-could-open-up-a-great-expanse-of-pristine-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Native America Calling: The road project that could open up a great expanse of pristine Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card mb-2\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4 align-self-center\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nativeamericacalling.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native america calling\"\/>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <div class=\"h5-responsive card-title\">Native America Calling<\/div>\r\n        <div>\r\n           Listen to Native America Calling every weekday at 1pm Eastern.\r\n        <\/div>\r\n        <div>\r\n          <!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\r\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1859-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/playerservices.streamtheworld.com\/api\/livestream-redirect\/NV1.mp3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/playerservices.streamtheworld.com\/api\/livestream-redirect\/NV1.mp3\">http:\/\/playerservices.streamtheworld.com\/api\/livestream-redirect\/NV1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>\r\n\t\t\tAlternate Links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nv1.org\/\">Native Voice One<\/a> |\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativeamericacalling.com\/\">NAC<\/a>\r\n\t\t\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, October 15, 2025<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativeamericacalling.com\/\"><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> nativeamericacalling.com<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nativeamericacalling\/\"><i class=\"fab fa-instagram fa-xs\"><\/i> nativeamericacalling<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nativeamericacalling\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook fa-xs\"><\/i> nativeamericacalling<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">The road project that could open up a great expanse of pristine Alaska\r\n<\/div>\r\nThe Trump administration just gave the final approval for a new 211-mile road that punches across the Brooks Mountain Range and the expansive wilderness that surrounds it.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n The Ambler Road promises to clear the way for several mining operations, providing minerals like copper, cobalt and gold that President Trump says is needed to \u201cwin the AI arms race against China.\u201d But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tananachiefs.org\/noamblerroad\/\">at least 40 Alaska Native tribes have officially lined up against the controversial project<\/a> citing subsistence hunting habitat among other concerns. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTune into Native America Calling to  hear about the Ambler Road controversy &#8212; and get an update on struggles over tribal control over hunting permits in Oklahoma.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/10\/15\/native-america-calling-the-road-project-that-could-open-up-a-great-expanse-of-pristine-alaska\/koyukukriver\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-257355\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" data-attachment-id=\"257355\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/10\/15\/native-america-calling-the-road-project-that-could-open-up-a-great-expanse-of-pristine-alaska\/koyukukriver\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16\/KoyukukRiver.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Koyukuk River\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Koyukuk River&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Koyukuk River in Alaska. Photo: &lt;a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/musubk\/7975660980\/&gt;Jason Ahms&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16\/KoyukukRiver.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16\/KoyukukRiver.jpg\" alt=\"Koyukuk River\"   class=\"size-full wp-image-257355\" \/><\/a> <figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">The Koyukuk River in Alaska. Photo: <a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/musubk\/7975660980\/>Jason Ahms<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Guests on Native America Calling<\/div>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emily-schwing-3215816\/\">Emily Schwing<\/a>, investigative reporter in Alaska\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nApril Monroe (Evansville Village). lands manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tananachiefs.org\/\">Tanana Chiefs Conference<\/a> in Alaska\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nMiles Cleveland Sr. (I\u00f1upiaq),  Assembly Member for the Northwest Arctic Borough in Alaska\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nRobert Gifford (Cherokee Nation), Native American Law attorney and tribal court judge\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nGary Batton (Choctaw Nation), Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/show\/4RE6juPYr7cl2Zsmb2zjq7?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">All Episodes on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4RE6juPYr7cl2Zsmb2zjq7?si=2a56e59533534bf9\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativeamericacalling.com\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\">More Options<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 40 tribes in Alaska are opposing a controversial road that President Donald Trump himself approved during the government shutdown.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,11,1,14,22,23],"tags":[4805,78,79,6841,4713,75,6187,1257,243,6840,892,133,127,134,4588,483,1135,164,154],"class_list":["post-256276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-environment","category-national","category-politics","category-technology","category-world","tag-ai","tag-alaska","tag-alaska-native","tag-april-monroe","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-emily-schwing","tag-gary-batton","tag-media","tag-miles-cleveland","tag-mining","tag-native-america-calling","tag-oklahoma","tag-radio","tag-robert-gifford","tag-subsistence","tag-tcc","tag-transportation","tag-treaties","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-14Fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16\/KoyukukRiver.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257357,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256276\/revisions\/257357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}