A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the Tlingit language, classified as on the edge of extinction, by pairing fluent elders with ...

FAIRBANKS — Village elders have worked with researchers for years to document the slate of native languages found across the state. Many of those languages, including Lower Tanana, are extremely ...

Sabine Siekmann was only 17 when she boarded her first plane in 1988, leaving Rotenburg, Germany, for Pocatello as a Rotary exchange student. She had no idea that years later she’d ride a snowmobile ...

Alaska Native children displaced last month by floods that destroyed hundreds of homes in remote villages are finding some familiarity in a school language immersion program where students speak their ...

Alaska Native children displaced last month by floods that destroyed hundreds of homes in remote villages are finding some familiarity in a school language immersion program where students speak their ...

Renee Avugiak, originally from Chefornak, Alaska, near the villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok that were heavily damaged by ex-Typhoon Halong, leads her class through the hallways at College Gate ...