As we observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day, it is essential not just to reflect on the history and culture of Indigenous communities, but to actively honor and support them today. Alaska Native peoples ...

Metlakatla residents celebrate their Founders Day holiday in August. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal) A small Canadian First Nation and an Indigenous group in Alaska each have challenged a ...

This weekend youth from across Alaska are participating in The Native Youth Olympics, a three-day celebration of Indigenous culture in the form of games that mimic hunting and survival techniques that ...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center's new exhibit on the impact of government and religious boarding schools is part of a series that will also look at the education of Native children before and after ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The athletes filling a huge gym in Anchorage, Alaska were ready to compete, cheering and stomping and high-fiving each other as they lined up for the chance to claim the state ...

The Eskay Creek project is one of several prospective mines near the British Columbia-Alaska border, where the government and ...

Alaska Native youth are living through a pivotal time, bearing witness to the dramatic impacts of climate change that have occurred during their lifetimes: rapidly melting permafrost, warming oceans ...

(Anna Canny/KTOO) Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. Growing up in rural ...

Later this spring, barges of heavy equipment will pull away from a launch on Alaska’s road system and begin a journey up the Yukon River. More than 100 miles upstream, a tributary, Birch Creek, ...

A professor-turned-historian, a mother-and-son duo, a former Alaska Native games athlete and coach, and the handler of a locally famous therapy dog were among more than a dozen Indigenous authors at ...

Twenty-three Alaska Native languages have been recognized alongside English as official Alaska state languages for a decade, but until this month there was no measure by which its schools could gauge ...