Alaska Natives celebrate Peltola’s historic House election


              Democrat Mary Peltola, center, gestures as she speaks with supporters at a fundraiser on Aug. 12, 2022, in Juneau, Alaska. Peltola is in two races on the Aug. 16, 2022, ballot in Alaska. One is the U.S. House special election, a ranked choice election in which she is competing against Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich. The winner of that race will serve the remainder of the late U.S. Rep. Don Young's term, which ends early next year. The other race she is in is the U.S. House primary. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
            
              U.S. House candidate Democrat Mary Peltola celebrates after results are announced for the special election in which she won the race for Alaska's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)
            
              Sarah Palin joins other candidates on stage during a forum for U.S. House candidates at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association annual conference at the Dena'ina Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Democrat Mary Peltola, right, won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat on Wednesday, besting a field that included Palin, who was seeking a political comeback in the state where she was once governor. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)
            
              U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin speaks to the media at her campaign headquarters in South Anchorage, Alaska, after the rank choice ballots were counted on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat on Wednesday, besting a field that included Palin, who was seeking a political comeback in the state where she was once governor. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)
            
              U.S. House candidate Democrat Mary Peltola answers questions from a reporter prior to a forum for U.S. House candidates at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association annual conference at the Dena'ina Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Peltola won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat on Wednesday, besting a field that included Republican Sarah Palin, who was seeking a political comeback in the state where she was once governor. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)
            
              FILE - Mary Peltola leaves a voting booth while early voting, Aug. 12, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. Peltola, a Democrat, faces Republicans, Nick Begich and Sarah Palin, in a special election Tuesday, Aug 16, 2022, to fill the remainder of the U.S. House term left vacant by Don Young's death in March. Peltola is also a candidate in Tuesday's U.S. House primary, seeking a full two-year term. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
Alaska Natives celebrate Peltola’s historic House election