A late amendment to a bill nearing final passage in the Alaska Capitol would exempt some Alaska Native village corporations ...

The Native American Contractors Association says delays in approving 8(a) applications are causing uncertainty among its members and impacting its communities.

Juneau, Alaska, offers glaciers, whale watching, and Indigenous history. It's also the only U.S. state not accessible by road ...

High winds in western Alaska have pushed a fire within miles of an Alaska Native community. Officials from the US Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service said that the East Fork Fire was within ...

The First Alaskans Institute’s annual gala awards rarely get much attention outside of the black-tie fundraiser where they’re given. The honors typically go to people whose work has aligned with the ...

Long before the rise of fast food and frozen dinners, Native Alaskan tribes created meals from the raw, frozen wilderness ...

Among the losses suffered by Western Alaska victims of ex-Typhoon Halong — destroyed four-wheelers, houses and lives — the destruction of the traditional foods they’d gathered for the winter is among ...

There was a time in the recent past when, despite having lived on this land for 10,000 years, Alaska Natives did not have the right to vote. After the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Callan Chythlook-Sifsof grew up in the part of Alaska known as “The Bush” and spent her first 12 years in a village about 500 miles northwest of Anchorage, a place ...

Pickled fiddlehead ferns, beach asparagus, moose soup and other Indigenous foods served to patients at Alaska Native Medical Center. (Shirley Young/ANMC) Food can be comforting, and the comfort food ...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center entrance (photo by Jesse Darling, all images courtesy the Alaska Native Heritage Center, unless otherwise noted) America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of ...