For centuries, the lives of Indigenous people and the salmon of Bristol Bay, Alaska, have been deeply entwined. The wisdom of harvesting, preserving, and sharing fish holds a significance that ...

It's a hundred years of fishing, and trapping, and sort of casual engagement with the market economy, poof, gone. Overnight." Today, Alaska Natives account for just over 15 percent of the total ...

several dozen people attended a public workshop on Alaska Native subsistence, or traditional hunting, fishing and gathering, ...

The question of whether to allow a road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wild area in southwest Alaska, has vexed policymakers for decades.

Kaktovik, on an island in the Arctic Ocean, was one of two Alaska communities whose polling places didn't open for the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Several Alaska Native Tribal Governments and the Center for Biological Diversity filed ... Tribal entities in the region have voiced strong opposition to the project and any ...

fishing and gathering to support for the state prioritizing public education funding. Peltola, who is Yup’ik, from Bethel and the first Alaska Native member of Congress, drew broad support from ...

These lands are integral to the ways of life for Alaska Native people in the region, who depend on roadless areas for hunting, fishing, gathering traditional medicines and cultural uses. In addition, ...

Alaska Native peoples have sustained themselves through traditional foodways — hunting, fishing, gathering and sharing — for millennia. These practices are vital to cultural identity and ...

Throughout his life, speakers said on Friday, Jackson has been committed to preserving the hunting and fishing rights of Alaska Native people. Marlene Haugen Career educator Marlene Haugen of ...