Land transfer to Alaska Native corporation preserves stretch of Nome River

When the “three lucky Swedes” discovered gold at Anvil Creek in the Bering Strait region in September of 1898, they touched ...
Alaska Public Media

Federal officials say proposed drastic changes to a contracting program won't affect tribes and Native corporations

Alaska Native corporations rely on contracts awarded through the 8(a) program – especially from the Department of Defense – ...
PBS

Alaska Natives Before Statehood

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...
E&E

Alaska Natives say Secretary Haaland is stonewalling them

Alaska Native leaders met with Biden administration officials in Washington this week, but they say Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has ignored or rejected their meeting requests at least eight times.

Op-Ed: Hegseth Attack on SBA Program, Alaska Natives Contradicts Trump Admin Priorities

Over 40 years ago as a budding New York Times reporter, I wrote a long article for the Times Sunday Magazine on Alaska Native ...
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Takeaways from AP’s report on Alaska Natives’ response to oil and mining proposals

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration and its allies have pushed aggressively for drilling, mining and logging in Alaska. This has intensified long-standing debate over ...

Celebration draws thousands to Juneau to uplift Alaska Native culture and heritage

Early summer sun beamed down on the opening of Celebration, a festival that honors Southeast Alaska Indigenous cultures. The ...
Hawaii News Now

Hokulea’s arrival allows Alaska Natives to practice protocol not seen in more than a century

YAKUTAT, ALASKA (HawaiiNewsNow) - This isolated town welcomed Hokulea to its shores during the voyaging canoe’s “heritage sail,” in preparation for a dangerous, four-year trek in the Pacific. It was ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Alaska Federation of Natives honors Julie Kitka for more than 3 decades of leadership

A procession of Alaska Native leaders from around the state took the stage Thursday to bid farewell to the longtime leader of the Alaska Federation of Natives on the opening day of the group’s ...
Hartford Courant

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...