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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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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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Head of Alaska’s largest Native organization says she’s leaving to make way for ‘new people and new ideas’
Julie Kitka, the longtime president of the state’s most prominent Alaska Native organization, is stepping down after 33 years. In an interview, Kitka said she wants to make room for new ...
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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.