Federal officials changed the names of two natural features in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Thursday, replacing arbitrary and ...

Its new name is Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, meaning either “gizzard creek” or “creek or river belonging to gizzard island” in Unangam ...

Native American News The ability to cast a ballot isn’t always guaranteed in Alaska’s far-flung Native villages Published: Nov. 02, 2024, 8:00 a.m.

KAKTOVIK, Alaska — This past summer, George Kaleak, a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, pinned a flyer to the blue, ribbon-lined bulletin board in the community ...

The U.S. Navy has formally apologized for obliterating an Alaska Native village in 1882, the second such apology this fall. Saturday’s gesture came on the 142nd anniversary of the destruction of ...

Navy apologies for destroying Alaska Native village in 1882 Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches ...

AP reporter Mark Thiessen explains why the ability to cast a ballot isn’t always guaranteed in Alaska’s far-flung Native villages and why their disenfranchisement could have an impact in one ...

The shuttered polling station represents just the latest example of persistent voting challenges in Alaska’s remote Native villages, a collection of more than 200 far-flung communities that dot ...

Early last summer, George Kaleak, a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, on an island in the Arctic Ocean just off the state's northern coast, pinned a flyer to the blue ...