Native Culture

Heritage Center opens with Mother's Day event

Shirley Anungazuk holds her 11-month-old great-granddaughter Chenel Ongtowasruk while listening to a performance by Medicine Dream as the Alaska Native Heritage Center celebrates the opening of its summer season and 13th anniversary with its annual Mother's Day event Sunday.

The Alaska Native Heritage Center celebrated the opening of its 13th summer season on Sunday with its annual Mother's Day event. The center is now open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The East Anchorage cultural center and museum helps visitors expand...

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Young filmmaker hopes to capture the spirituality of Orthodox Natives in the North

Dmitry Trakovsky wasn't quite sure what he'd seen when he visited Alaska last August. The 26-year-old moviemaker from California had gotten on the art film map with his first feature documentary, "Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky," which premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2009.
NATIVE CULTURE

'Strong Man' retells Tlingit tales for modern life

In the Tlingit story of Strong Man, the hero Dukt'ootl grows up building his strength until one day he is ready to become a leader of his people.
LEGISLATURE

Preserving Native languages target of bill

Linguists and Native groups from across Alaska are lining up behind a proposal aimed at preserving and revitalizing the state's 20 Native languages.
NATIVE CULTURE

Alaskan is carving totem for Smithsonian

The Smithsonian Institution has commissioned David Boxley of Metlakatla to carve a 22-foot-tall totem pole that will be installed at the National Museum of the American Indian.
NATIVE CULTURE

Bronze artifact found on Alaska's Seward Peninsula

A research team is attempting to discover the origin of a cast bronze artifact excavated from an Inupiat Eskimo homesite believed to be about 1,000 years old.
HEALTH

Kotzebue teen leads the charge to prevent Alaska suicides

Mt. Edgecumbe High School senior Tessa Baldwin knows all too well about the staggering suicide rate among Alaska Natives. Baldwin, a 17-year-old from Kotzebue, was 5 when she saw her uncle take his own life.
SCIENCE

UAA anthropologist's discoveries rewrite history of Aleutian society

More than 25 years have passed since Diane Hanson, as a young anthropology graduate student, reported to the Alaska Anthropological Association about one Adak archaeological site that wasn’t in the usual place — along the Aleutian coastline
FAIRBANKS

Athabascan matriarch Hannah Solomon remembered

A red rose atop a pink and blue crocheted pillow marked an empty pew seat at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church that was occupied for many years by Athabascan matriarch Hannah Solomon.
NATIVE CULTURE

Researchers find ancient artifacts in Alaska

University of Alaska Fairbanks officials say researchers have discovered ancient artifacts in northwest Alaska.
ARTS AND CULTURE

Alaska artist John Hoover dead at 91 in Washington

John Hoover, one of Alaska's most respected and revered artists, died in Washington state on Saturday morning. He was 91. Hoover's large sculptural work is a familiar sight at the Egan Civic and Convention Center, the Alaska Native Medical Center and the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage...