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Some stories hurt before they even begin. Cheri Haarstad discovers she descends from an Alaska Native chief. She's done the ...
Rhone Baumgartner and Kameron Hartvigson, employees of Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, were among the 10 people who died in the Bering Air flight crash this week.
In a powerful statement of resistance, President Gloria Ilsxileé Stáng Burns of the Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) ...
The President of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson, ...
As ice breaks on the Yukon River, Jake Pogrebinsky looks at the water from shore, searching for a large log floating ...
From Alaska to Arizona, tribes are confronting the possibility of stalled projects, energy outages, and economic disruption.
But American expansion into Alaska during the 19th and 20th centuries imposed U.S. customs on tribes, including the Tlingit, in efforts designed to strip Indigenous people of their culture.
By deferring instead to the 2014 ruling, the Supreme Court of Alaska established tribal health consortia as “arms of the tribes.” What This Means for Alaska, and the Rest of the Country Under the ...
A U.S. judge has ruled in favor of a federal agency's approval of a newly built tribal casino on the outskirts of. The decision is a victory for the Native Village of Eklutna, which opened the Chin'an ...
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 put most Alaska Native land here under the control of Native corporations — ...
Two of the 10 passengers onboard the Bering Air plane that went missing outside Nome, Alaska, on Feb. 6 were utility workers who were flying back from Unalakleet after helping to ‘address ...
On a former military base in Galena, Alaska, a school that houses about 200 high school students teaches sustainability among many things.