“Threads of the Tongass” is a series of stories that explore how lives in Southeast Alaska are interwoven with the Tongass ...

Congressman Nick Begich (AK-R) applauded the House passage of his bill, H.R. 410, the Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension Act of 2025, calling it an important step toward ...

Holly Miowak Guise chose to title her book “Alaska Native Resilience,” because, she said, it perfectly captured the story she wanted to tell about the ways Alaska Natives experienced World War ...

A small Native community in the remote North Slope borough of Alaska has been at the center of debates in Washington, D.C., over bringing “drill, baby, drill” to its backyard — and it isn ...

The Yup’ik woman became known in church communities across Alaska for quiet generosity, piety and compassion — particularly as a consoler of women who had suffered from abuse, from miscarriage ...

Now, after an elaborate ceremony in her village of about 800 people in southwestern Alaska, she is the first female Orthodox saint from North America, officially known as “St. Olga of Kwethluk ...

Native American News Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint Published: Jun. 26, 2025, 11:58 a.m.

St. Olga is the third with Alaska Native heritage, emblematic of how the faith has grafted in with some Indigenous cultures. Most of the state’s Orthodox priests, serving about 80 parishes, are ...

Researchers find errors in death certificates, say Native Americans and Alaska Natives live nearly four years less than statistics suggest — 72.7 years.

This Alaska Native fishing village was trying to power their town. Then came Trump’s funding cuts. Port Heiden is facing an energy crisis. A $300,000 grant from the EPA would have helped the ...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center Is a Home of Ancestral Knowledge The Anchorage institution exists to be a purposeful, active place where culture is embodied, enacted, and shared.

Special rules apply to American Indian and Alaska Native communities and some Medicare costs. Read more.