Alaska Native Language map ... In general, between 100-300 people could be found living in sedentary villages in protected locations during the winter. In the spring, family or extended family ...

The Strongheart's live in one of a group of Native American communities ... income levels in the villages to drop below $26,500 -- whatever the cost of living. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's office ...

Permanent Aleutian villages consisted of underground homes ... aboriginal autonomy has rebounded in Alaska. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 officially ended native land ownership ...

Sustainable fishing policies passed in the 1970s have backfired in rural Native villages, where many family-run boats have ...

KAKTOVIK, Alaska (AP) — The right to vote is considered sacrosanct in the U.S., but it isn't always so in the tiny, remote ...

While totems may be the star attraction in Alaska Native villages and communities, they merely begin the conversation of ...

A similar story has played out in villages up and down the Gulf of Alaska coast. Angoon, Nondalton, Old Harbor — each of those small Native communities is home to a fraction of the commercial ...

The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has ... drawing inspiration from his time studying sanitation in the state’s rural villages. “In the whole time that I was there, I had ...

Alaska is nearly one quarter as large as the lower 48 states combined, and more than 200 Native villages count as distinct tribal entities. Many communities fall far outside the road system and remain ...

Alaska Native mushers say Indigenous participation ... which was being supplanted in rural villages by snowmobiles. The Iditarod bills itself as the Last Great Race and few would disagree.