Moses Wiseman spoke his Yup’ik language before he learned English. As a college freshman, he entered the field of Alaska Native language revitalization with a bit of an inherited purpose.

I know the more perspicacious among you are wondering what a teeny, tiny baby girl and her young parents have to do with someone named Molly Hootch. Hang on. As you no doubt recall with great clarity, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- David Smith was a new arrival to the North Slope village of Nuiqsut last year when the former resident of upstate New York cooked up a few turkeys and vat of chili for the Eskimo ...

The World Eskimo Indian Olympics highlights traditional games that simulate challenges faced in traditional Alaska Native life and other indigenous cultures. The 2025 games are set for July 16-19 at ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- When Robert Tokeinna was a teenager and got depressed, his mind turned to thoughts of suicide. It is not an unfamiliar notion in Brevig Mission, an isolated Inupiat Eskimo village ...

ANCHORAGE, May 28 -- -- ANCHORAGE, May 28 -- A U.S. senator urged delegates of the International Whaling Commission to renew a five-year subsistence whaling quota for Alaska Native communities, ...

"Domesticated reindeer were introduced to Alaska from the Russian Far East at the end of the nineteenth century as a project in social engineering designed to assist in the assimilation of Alaska ...

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I know the more perspicacious among you are wondering what a teeny, tiny baby girl and her young parents have to do with someone named Molly Hootch. Hang on.