The Department of the Interior has announced an unprecedented $121 million investment to help Tribal communities combat the ...

The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the US 150 years ago is actually 2 tales and 2 intertwining ...

Unangam Tunuu is taught in only a handful of classes in the public school system, and outside these sessions, the language is ...

The Native Village of Eklutna has worked for years to build a small-scale casino on a piece of land owned by tribal members.

Growing up in a rural community, Kelliher-Combs observed and learned “time-honored traditional women’s and collective ...

The name "Denali" is derived from the Koyukon name and is based on a verb theme meaning "high" or "tall," according to linguist James Kari of the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of ...

Over 3,100 Native American students died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970, a Post investigation found — three times as many as the U.S. previously reported.

Starting in the 1840s, however, aggressive British colonization took aim at Māori language and culture. Disease, armed conflict, and land theft decimated Māori populations, while the 1867 Native ...

Satellite images courtesy of NASA. Credit: Frank Ramspott The Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Island waters were on the warm side for a good part of the year. In fact, winter sea surface temperatures ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted more than $3.8 million to three Alaska Native organizations for assessment and cleanup of legacy contamination on lands conveyed through the 1971 ...

It sits on a barrier island on the Chukchi Sea. Kivalina is not an outlier. More than 70 of over 200 Alaska Native coastal villages face significant threats from erosion, flooding and thawing ...

WASHINGTON — The White House Council on Native American Affairs is leaving behind a blueprint for the revitalization of tribal languages for Congress and the next administration. The spiral-bound ...