“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.”
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
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.
Presbyterian Church leaders visit Juneau to plan apology for 1962 church closure
Alaska Native leaders spoke to church leaders on Wednesday about the harm religious organizations have done to Lingít communities through language suppression and violence at boarding schools.
Alaska Native youth to carve 2 dugout canoes with federal education funding boost
The goal is to teach Lingít culture while applying the principles of science, technology, engineering and math education to canoe-making.
Alaska tribes bring cultural items home with federal grants
Important objects like ceremonial masks and drums are scattered throughout the collections of museums across the globe.
After 200 years, a traditional Unangax̂ boat is making a comeback
Four communities built niĝilax̂ this year, after studying historical documents, sketches, and artifacts to learn how they were made