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Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that ...

Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. (Kristine Sowl photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) (CN) — Three Alaska Native villages and a national conservation organization filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the ...

The Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, is the first Alaska community to begin a full-scale relocation made ...

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On July 9, 2025, the President signed into law the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025 (“ANVMLRA”). This legislation will permit Alaska Native Village Corporations to recover ...

There’s a man who comes by the Native American Village at Jazz Fest every year known as “Flyswatter Guy.” Grayhawk Perkins, 65, one of the organizers of the Village — a display of Indigenous culture, ...