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UAA hosted the 2nd Annual Native Heritage Month Celebration in the Student Union on Nov. 20. Food was provided for the guests and at the event and many Alaska Native artists displayed and sold their ...

Ketchikan, Alaska’s southernmost city, sits like a colorful ribbon along the shoreline of Revillagigedo Island, where life moves to the rhythm of fishing boats and the daily arrival of the Alaska ...

Kidney cancer incidence is 90% higher in American Indian and Alaska Native populations than in non-Hispanic Whites, with mortality rates nearly double. Disparities are driven by late detection, ...

My uncle Ricky is Native. I am Native, full stop. I’m Native Alaskan. I’m disjointed from being Native. Correction. I used to be. I used to believe the following. Because I didn’t live on a ...

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change JUNEAU, Alaska -- Storms that ...

Conservation groups and three Alaska Native tribes filed lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday to block a deal for a gravel road through a wildlife refuge on the Alaska Peninsula. The ...

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change — and revived questions about their ...

Three tribal governments and several environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to try to block a land trade that would allow a road to be built through a national wildlife refuge ...

Powerful back-to-back storms have ravaged dozens of mostly Alaska Native communities in western Alaska: Approximately 2,000 people were displaced, and at least one village was entirely torn apart.

Walter Nelson, managed retreat coordinator, points out the high water mark during flooding last month when the remnants of Typhoon Halong hit Napakiak, Alaska. Credit: Photo by Katie Baldwin ...

The body of a second Minnesota native who died after an apparent avalanche in Alaskan mountains earlier this year has been found. Authorities in Alaska have confirmed that remains found in the Chugach ...