Alaska Native

A new wing at Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center opened in Fairbanks this week. The expansion adds a 3-story, 108,000-square-foot addition to the existing Native Health clinic, making specialized health care closer for village residents, particularly elders, in the Interior.

Leaders commented on the council's failure last month to pass a resolution calling for a Native land acknowledgement at the start of council meetings.

Quannah Chasinghorse Potts has just returned to Fairbanks from France where she modeled Chanel during Paris Fashion Week. She was discovered because of her activism for Native land rights.

Flags were at half-staff in Alaska yesterday in honor of former Alaska legislator and Alaska Native elder John Sackett, who died last Wednesday of…

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board will approve another piece of high school curriculum tonight. The English and Language Arts Curriculum for…

A new series of films documents the first-hand experiences of the indigenous people whose ways of life are being transformed as Bering Sea ice diminishes.…

A federal civil suit filed against the city of Fairbanks by the Fairbanks Four is back in play. On Wednesday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned…

People gathered Wednesday night outside a Fairbanks apartment building where a woman was found dead earlier this week. As KUAC’s Dan Bross reports the…

December 24th marks 2 years since a Fairbanks man was fatally shot by local police and Alaska State Troopers, and the deceased man’s family recently filed…

Athabascan elder Howard Luke, who died at the age of 95 last weekend, is being remembered and celebrated by a wide web of family and friends. KUAC’s Dan…