The village of Klukwan has only one capital request to the Alaska Legislature this year: $750,000 for help paying for completion of the Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center.

Heritage center director Lani Hotch said the requested appropriation is half the $1.5 million the project must raise to reach a “tipping point” of 75 percent of total funding. Reaching it would make the $7.4 million project eligible for nearly $2 million in completion funds from the Rasmuson…