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Which Indigenous voices? On Arctic Refuge, lawmakers practice selective listening

27 March 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments ANWR, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, caribou, Don Young, First Nations, Gwich’in, indigenous, Iñupiat, Porcupine Caribou

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

1 June 20184 June 2018 Emily Russell, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, archives, history, Iñupiat, Kotzebue, military, native, Oral history, veterans, Vietnam War

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

23 May 2018 Mia Bennett 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Arctic Ocean, Canada, economy, highways, Infrastructure, Inuit, Iñupiat, Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway, jobs, Northwest Passage, Northwest Territories, politics, roads

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

18 March 201816 March 2018 Mia Bennett 0 Comments Alaska Native regional corporations, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Doyon Limited, Iñupiat, Kotzebue, NANA Regional Corporation, pollution, Red Dog Mine, Teck American, toxic waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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

28 February 201828 February 2018 Mia Bennett 0 Comments Alaska, Chukchi Sea, Great Salt Lake Basin, Iñupiat, Kotzebue, mining, NANA, National Parks Service, natural resources, Nevada, Northwest Alaskan Borough, pollution, Red Dog Mine, Teck, toxic waste, Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Utah, zinc

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

12 July 2017 Mia Bennett 0 Comments Alaska Native corporation, Arctic oil, energy, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Iñupiat, North Slope

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

31 March 2017 Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Bering Strait, indigenous knowledge, Iñupiat, Kawerak, Yup'ik

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

16 March 201716 March 2017 Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Iñupiat, photography, Yupiit

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

10 February 2017 Lori Townsend, APRN 0 Comments indigenous rights, Iñupiat, Presbyterian Church, religion, Utqiaġvik

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

31 October 201631 October 2016 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Alaska, Arctic, indigenous, Iñupiat, research, Science, Yup'ik

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

18 October 2016 Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic, indigenous, Inuit, Iñupiaq, Iñupiat, Marjorie Tahbone

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

13 October 201513 October 2015 Kamala Kelkar, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments food, hunting, indigenous, Inuit, Iñupiat, wildlife

For thousands of years, when Inupiat whaling crews hunted bowhead whales, the harpooners were traditionally men — until this generation, which has

A bowhead mother swims with her calf. (iStock)

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Whaling group investigating report of bowhead calf taken in spring hunt

12 May 201513 May 2015 Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Alaska, Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, Arctic, indigenous, Iñupiat, oceans, Point Hope

BETHEL – A report that a whaling crew from the village of Point Hope killed a bowhead calf will be

A subdivision on the outskirts of Kaktovik looks into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's 1002 coastal plain. Sept. 10, 2012. (Loren Holmes/Alaska Dispatch)

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Arctic Ocean may be next as Alaska officials seethe over ANWR move

27 January 201528 January 2015 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Barack Obama, ConocoPhillips, energy, Iñupiat, nature, North Slope

Emotions continued to rise on Monday over President Barack Obama’s initiative to increase protection for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with

Postpartum nurse Elisa See collects blood samples from one-day-old Bryce Jones on Monday afternoon, Nov. 24, at Alaska Native Medical Center. The blood was drawn to screen for 50 conditions including CPT1A, which occurs in some Alaska Native people and other Arctic indigenous people. If undetected, CPT1A Arctic variant can have serious health consequences. A new and improved test, expected to be implemented next year, will do a better job of finding CPT1A Arctic variant. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News)

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Clues emerging about Arctic gene, diet and health

1 December 20141 December 2014 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments aboriginal, Alaska, children, climate, CPT1A, indigenous, Iñupiat, Yup'ik

For thousands of years, the indigenous people of the far north survived the extreme cold of their environment with a

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