This Yupik dancing doesn’t happen at a special ceremony or festival. It’s not put on by the school. No one wears beaded headdresses or fancy boots or even qaspeqs. It's just part of life on St. Lawrence Island.
Totem pole raisings are often times of celebration, dancing and drumming. But this one was somber.
It’s his getaway and his job, a wondrous undersea world that strengthens his spirit and tests his aging body.
Thinning sea ice puts walruses nearly out of reach. The federal government may list walruses as an endangered species. And ivory bans elsewhere are making it hard for walrus-tusk carvers to sell their art.
Professional help is on the way for a rare, repatriated instrument.
Officials expect to open the Ernie Turner Center — Recovery Journey Program on a rural, forested tract northeast of Anchorage next summer.
My mother grew up in a house where her parents spoke Inupiaq to each other. I grew up in a house where only English was used. And because of that, I was excluded.
The Clare Swan Early Head Start Child Care Center was designed with Alaska Native families in mind. There are 72 slots available, and the center had already received more than 90 applications as of Tuesday, CITC said.
Review: Playwright Frank Henry Kaash Katasse explores the lives of modern indigenous people in a world premiere from Perseverance Theatre.
Children soared through the air during the Fur Rondy blanket toss in downtown Anchorage. It takes about 40 volunteers to hold the 20-year-old bearded seal skin blanket.
The goal is to help Yup’ik people share their knowledge of Western Alaska.
Cama-i Dance Festival in Bethel starts March 31, and about 20 groups from across Alaska and the globe are set to dance, sing or drum.
Quirky and packed with Alaska Native art, artifacts and animals, Joe's Museum is an unexpected treasure in the Far North.
Church members assemble in family homes, in the tiny church and at the AC grocery store. Everywhere, a boy carries a spinning star.
Art Beat: I argued with oft-repeated claim that John Muir was “an honorary Tlingit chief.” A more knowledgeable analysis was provided by James Crippen, an Alaskan pursuing his Ph.D.
Opinion: We regularly encounter references to the effect that naturalist John Muir was a Tlingit chief. But is that really true?
Arts Scene: The IGCA explores the subsistence whaling culture of the North Slope this month with work by Herman Ahsoak and David Pettibone.
The Juneau artist was best known for helping to revitalize an almost-lost form of Tlingit weaving.
Allison Warden’s installation/performance piece “Unipkaagusiksuguvik” required her to be on site most of the time the museum was open since Oct. 7.
Two brothers from Kotzebue just released an app called Chert, which adds an Alaska Native language keyboard to iPhones.
