At Monday’s event, national church leaders gave $100,000 to Sealaska Heritage Institute to support language revitalization efforts.
Arts & Culture
Tlingit and Haida, Forest Service plans to expand cultural education at Mendenhall Glacier
“The people who go there want to learn about the glacier,” President Richard Chalyee Éesh Peterson said. “They also want to learn about the people.”
‘Salt and Sex’ puts Alaska writer in national anthology
An article by Fairbanks writer Amy Loeffler will appear in this year’s “Best American Food Writing” anthology.
Juneau’s waterfront totem poles have new signs to describe and protect them: ‘This is more than art’
Sealaska Heritage Institute put up storyboards last week to educate visitors and protect the poles from mistreatment.
Mud pies and ‘Molly of Denali’ could strengthen STEM education in rural Alaska
Researchers say experimentation in the natural world can help young children develop an interest in environmental science.
2023 Rasmuson Distinguished Artist awardee plans to weave biggest Chilkat blanket ever
Anna Brown Ehlers has woven several dozen blankets over the last 40 years, and she’s taught hundreds of students.
Áakʼw Rock Indigenous music festival starts Thursday in Juneau
Indigenous performers from across Alaska, the U.S. and the world will play over the course of three days.
Four years into the Yukon salmon collapse, an Interior Alaska village wonders if it will ever fish again
The river’s once-strong king salmon run has been on a long, slow decline since the 1990s. Chum salmon runs have also been unpredictable. But in the last four years, both species’ runs abruptly crashed.
Juneau is at the forefront of Alaska’s burgeoning pinball scene
For the first time, Alaska tournament results are going to the International Flipper Pinball Association, which publishes online rankings for players all over the world.
Hamilton star says cast is feeling ‘so much love’ from Anchorage audience
Pierre Jean Gonzalez spoke with Alaska Public Media’s Wesley Early about his experience bringing the “$10 Founding Father without a father” to the Anchorage stage.