Which Indigenous voices? On Arctic Refuge, lawmakers practice selective listening
A bill in Congress would reverse the 2017 decision to open the northernmost part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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Veterans from Indigenous Alaskan village have war stories archived online
Alaska has the highest concentration of veterans nationwide. From World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and both Gulf
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Blog – How Northwestern Inuit led construction of Canada’s highway to Arctic Ocean
Last November, Canada’s first highway to the Arctic Ocean opened. When shovels broke ground on the all-weather road in January
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Blog – Alaska Native Regional Corporations are responsible for pollution, too
Two weeks ago, I wrote about how Alaska’s Red Dog Mine is the most toxic site in America. This story has been
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Blog – America’s most toxic site is in the Alaskan Arctic
In the Alaskan Arctic, Iñupiat sail across seas they’ve navigated for thousands of years in search of a whale to
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Blog: In the Arctic Ocean, an Alaska Native corporation seeks to fill void left by Shell
When Shell aborted its $7 billion Arctic drilling efforts in the Beaufort Sea in September 2015, environmentalists breathed a sigh
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Lights in the sky and mysterious gravesites: Seeking the supernatural in Western Alaska
Unexplained lights in the night sky. Killer whales that transform into human beings. Bigfoot sightings. These are just a few
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‘I Am Inuit’ goes from Instagram to museum in Anchorage, Alaska
Who lives in the Arctic? And what are their stories? Those are questions posed by a new photography exhibit more
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Presbyterian Church formally apologizes to Alaska native people for denouncing culture
At 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 8, 2017 in Utqiagvik, an apology from the head of the Presbyterian Church will be
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‘Arctic gene’ that poses fasting risks is found in more infants thanks to DNA testing
Thousands of years of a diet with lots of animal fats and sparse carbohydrates left a mark on the DNA
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An ‘elder in training’ teaches Alaska crowd how to butcher a seal
FAIRBANKS — She didn’t have her big ulu or her special slanted board but Marjorie “Kunaq” Tahbone smoothly sliced blubber
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Female whalers break ‘ice ceiling’ in Arctic Alaska
For thousands of years, when Inupiat whaling crews hunted bowhead whales, the harpooners were traditionally men — until this generation, which has
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Whaling group investigating report of bowhead calf taken in spring hunt
BETHEL – A report that a whaling crew from the village of Point Hope killed a bowhead calf will be
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Arctic Ocean may be next as Alaska officials seethe over ANWR move
Emotions continued to rise on Monday over President Barack Obama’s initiative to increase protection for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with
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Clues emerging about Arctic gene, diet and health
For thousands of years, the indigenous people of the far north survived the extreme cold of their environment with a
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