‘We aren’t bad people,’ says family living in tent in front of legislature in Arctic Canada
Brian Tagalik and Pitsiulaaq Ashoona say territory’s housing crisis means they can’t afford rent. Brian Tagalik says the hardest part
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Indigenous communities
Two candidates vy to unseat president of Canada’s national Inuit organization
Former MP Peter Ittinuar, former policy analyst Peter Williamson, and incumbent president, Natan Obed, are all in the running for
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World maritime body approves first Arctic ship routing measures
The International Maritime Organization approved on Friday the first internationally recognized ship routing measures designed jointly by Russia and the
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Words, a powerful tool against suicide in Alaska
Noatak is a village of about 500 people in the northwest Arctic that’s got a lot going for it. People
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Mixing science with traditional knowledge, researchers hope to get seal oil on the menu in Alaska
There’s a traditional foods movement happening in Alaska. Dieticians, administrators, and others are trying to get more wild foods like
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Arctic Frontiers kicks off with majority of speakers from south of the Arctic Circle
More than 90 percent of the speakers listed on the front page of Arctic Frontiers’ program for 2018 are from
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Preserving Indigenous languages in Alaska, one grocery store at a time
Some rural Alaska shoppers have new ways to find dairy and doughnuts, body wash and toilet paper. And if they
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Alaska and its tribes sign child services agreement
State officials say the new Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact — signed today at the 51st annual Alaska Federation of
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Elder keynote address highlights generational parallels in Alaska
The Acilquq Dance Group performing an invitational song on stage to kick off the second day of this year’s Elders
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34th Annual Elders and Youth Conference kicks off in Alaska
The first full day of the 34th annual Elders and Youth Conference kicked off in Anchorage Monday morning. The gathering
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Ottawa reaches ‘agreement in principle’ with Indigenous victims of Sixties Scoop
The Canadian government has reached an agreement in principle to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to thousands
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Ontario court sides with Indigenous survivors of Sixties Scoop
Canada failed in its obligations to thousands of Aboriginal children who were taken away from their parents and placed with non-Indigenous
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Arctic Indigenous leaders to push for permanent voice in world maritime body
A coalition of environmental groups is calling for a permanent voice for Arctic Indigenous communities at the world body that
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