The Haines Borough Administration Building, March 3, 2025. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News)

Mayor Tom Morphet will meet with Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska president Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson this week about a dispute that has the borough and tribe headed to a hearing in Alaska Small Claims Court. 

The stakes, at least in court, are relatively small: roughly $7,500 in sales tax that the Haines Borough says was collected at…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.