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Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy’s new saint?
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in ...
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Book chronicles the hidden costs of war for Alaska Native communities
In Alaska Native Resilience, Holly Miowak Guise draws on oral histories and archival research to look at how Alaska Natives ...
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Native Stories From Alaska Give Gamers Something To Play With
Native Stories From Alaska Give Gamers Something To Play With : All Tech Considered The video game Never Alone draws on a traditional Inupiaq story and the actual experiences of native Alaskan ...
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Alaska Native languages are at a crucial juncture, council’s report says
The call to action from the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council urges systemic reforms to the state’s support and integration of Native languages.
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Alaska land offered to veterans in one-of-a-kind giveaway, but it comes with a hitch - Stars and Stripes
A total of 2,800 Alaska Natives served during the Vietnam War, with 1,971 identified and contacted in 2023 by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management about the land giveaway.