Army Conducts Ninth Year of Disinterment and Return of Native American Children at Carlisle Barracks

The U.S. Army will continue its commitment to reunite Native American and Alaska Native families with their loved ones ...
Mass Transit

FTA issues nearly $200 million to improve rail, American Indian Tribe and Alaska Native community transit infrastructure

The funds will go toward infrastructure improvements, vehicle procurements, upgraded facilities and expanded service.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

WWF Statement on Alaska’s Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition (ARTIST) Act

Today the House passed the Alaska’s Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition (ARTIST) Act, legislation to protect the legal rights ...

Op-Ed: Hegseth Attack on SBA Program, Alaska Natives Contradicts Trump Admin Priorities

Over 40 years ago as a budding New York Times reporter, I wrote a long article for the Times Sunday Magazine on Alaska Native ...
Juneau Empire on MSN

Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Celebration 2026 kicks off next week

The popular dance and cultural festival is marking 44 years since its inception ...
Hartford Courant

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...
Associated Press

Alaska wildlife agents can kill bears from helicopters in an effort to protect caribou, judge says

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Two brown bears look for salmon at Brooks Falls in ...
PBS

Alaska Natives Before Statehood

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...