President Barack Obama visited Dillingham Wednesday afternoon as part of his trip to Alaska.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
Listen: The education of Nora Marks Dauenhauer
“They sprayed every one of our hair and clothes with kerosene. At sixth grade I dropped out,” says Nora Marks Dauenhauer.
Artist teaches formline in prison by day, Tsimshian by night
Entering the maximum security prison — with its checkpoints, razor wire barricades, metal detectors and armed guards—it’s hard to imagine an art class. Until you get to the library.
Archaeologists uncover new artifacts near Quinhagak
The old village continues to reveal artifacts that give a glimpse into the daily lives of Yup’ik people hundreds of years ago.
A national park’s missing stories find new home in Glacier Bay Tlingit tribal house
A $3 million dollar Tlingit tribal house is being constructed on the shore of Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay–likely the first time the park service has funded a tribal house.
Gov. Walker wants Elizabeth Peratrovich on $10 bill
The Walker-Mallott administration has nominated Tlingit civil rights leader Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich to be on the new $10 bill. The U.S. Treasury is collecting nominations of women who were champions for democracy to put on the redesigned note. The governor and lieutenant governor say Peratrovich fits the description well. Walker Press Secretary Katie Marquette says…