With more than 10,000 years of human history, the state offers boundless opportunities to connect with the living culture of Alaska Native peoples Covering an expansive 663,000 square miles of ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael ...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center exists to be a purposeful, ... Burn Me! at The Box examines how fire has shaped art and life west of the San Bernardino Mountains — in the last six months and ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

Juneau's Alaska State Museum is seen in the fall sun on Oct. 2, 2024. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Sarah Knudsen has been beading for long enough that she says she can recognize where ...

St. Olga is the third with Alaska Native heritage, emblematic of how the faith has grafted in with some Indigenous cultures. Most of the state’s Orthodox priests, serving about 80 parishes, are ...

Alaska Native mushers and their dogs dominated the earliest Iditarods. Athabascan mushers Carl Huntington, Emmitt “The Yukon Fox” Peters and Jerry Riley won the 1974, 1975 and 1976 races ...

The careers of prominent Native art curators like Kathleen Ash-Milby, Navajo, who co-organized Jeffrey Gibson’s groundbreaking exhibit in Venice in 2024 for the Portland Art Museum in Oregon and ...