The Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, is the first Alaska community to begin a full-scale relocation made ...

BETHEL, Alaska — The Kuskokwim River was frozen solid on Monday as a caravan of white trucks crunched down the shoreline of this southwestern community onto the ice-covered river for a 6-mile drive ...

Two Native villages in Alaska and a Native village in Washington state will receive $25 million each in federal assistance to help relocate to higher ground in the face of climate-change-driven ...

The U.S. Navy has formally apologized for obliterating an Alaska Native village in 1882, the second such apology this fall. Saturday’s gesture came on the 142nd anniversary of the destruction of the ...

Anchorage is home to more Athabascans than Fairbanks, more Yup'ik than Bethel and more Inupiat than Barrow, the U.S. Census shows. The city has long been known as "Alaska's biggest Native village." ...

Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. (Kristine Sowl photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) (CN) — Three Alaska Native villages and a national conservation organization filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the ...

Nearly a month after a fire destroyed the only source of potable water for the entire Alaska Native village of Tuluksak, residents there continue to rely entirely on bottled water and plead for help.

Ketchikan has some wonderful places to both learn about Tlingit culture and history and to see it up close, engaging with members of the local community. The Saxman Native Village in Ketchikan is a ...

There’s a man who comes by the Native American Village at Jazz Fest every year known as “Flyswatter Guy.” Grayhawk Perkins, 65, one of the organizers of the Village — a display of Indigenous culture, ...

Chief John Kvasnikoff leads the tribal government of the Native Village of Nanwalek, Alaska. I am the chief of the Native Village of Nanwalek, located in Lower Cook Inlet in south-central Alaska. Our ...

Detroit — Surrounded by dozens of miniature American flags, a small white home on Detroit’s west side has a hidden story in the backyard. A Detroit couple, Mary Pustelak and Robert Mounts, wanted to ...