Alaska Natives

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…

An Alaska Native woman who grew up in the Interior is running for mayor of Seattle. Colleen Echohawk heads a Seattle nonprofit that helps and heals…

The Tanana Chiefs Conference last week was awarded a $150,000 federal grant last week for a program that helps residents clean up and reuse contaminated…

UAF archeology professor Ben Potter and an international team of scientists he worked with has discovered evidence of a previously unknown, ancient people…

Climate change and the settlement of the New World …Long before climate change became politically-heated buzzwords, archeologists were using the term to…

An Arctic pathway for indigenous peoples ancestors …A new study suggests archeologists should take another look at an inland route humans may have taken…

Debating Arctic issues in the Arctic ...“It’s really exciting to be here for this historic U.S. Senate debate,” moderator Rhonda McBride said last week as…

The health impacts of climate change ...“In public health, we’ve all been on a steep learning curve, and we’re learning how to pull climate change into…

Informing Arctic science with traditional knowledge …Top scientists from around the world gathered at the White House last week for the first-ever Arctic…

Helping Americans and Alaskans understand each other …Alaska Native Raina Thiele worked on the White House staff pretty much since the beginning of the…