Alaska Native leader Bob Loescher dies at 68

Former Sealaska CEO and longtime Native-rights activist Robert “Bob” Loescher has died at the age of 68. Loescher worked for the Southeast Alaska regional Native corporation for about 25 years. He became CEO in 1997, a job he held until 2001.
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Former Sealaska CEO Bob Loescher in May 2014. (File photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
He served on the Juneau Assembly in the early 1970s.
He also held leadership roles in the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indi