Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The team behind the docuseries “Lost Women of Alaska,” which explores the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis, ...

A Yup'ik elder born to nomadic parents in western Alaska just after the start of the Great Depression has become the first person counted in the 2020 Census. Lizzie Chimiugak was honored during a ...

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an ...