After a successful pilot season of Writers’ Showcase, 360 North statewide public television and KTOO News would like to invite Alaska writers to participate in this next season.
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Bethel residents react to Alaska voting rights ruling
A judge ruled that the State of Alaska violated the Voting Rights Act by failing to provide translations into Native languages.
Foundation swoops in to save sacred Alaskan artifacts at auction
“It was suspect in some cases how the artifacts actually ended up in private hands, so to return them to the rightful owner was the right thing to do,” says Carol Laumen.
Thai activist talks about political unrest in his home country
Thai activist, author, academic and two-time Nobel Peace prize nominee Sulak Sivaraska spoke Wednesday evening in Juneau.
Not my town! ‘Grizzly Trade’ ambles through places, personalities of SE
It’s got a Vietnam vet with a big heart and anger management problems, a small-town newspaper reporter, and a hippie radio station.
New project seeks to boost number of Alaska Natives in STEM fields
The goal, ultimately, is to increase the number of Native tenured faculty at colleges and universities.
Attorney: Yup’ik fishermen wrongfully convicted
Attorneys argued before the Alaska Court of Appeals in downtown Anchorage yesterday about whether Yup’ik fishermen, who fished for Chinook or king Salmon during a closure on the Kuskokwim River in 2012, were wrongfully convicted.
Tlingit-Haida and State sign agreement to improve relationship
“We can utilize our programs with the state’s programs to deliver better services to our communities and our people,” says Richard Peterson.
A partnership of language and love
Dick Dauenhauer was teaching folklore at Alaska Methodist University in the early 1970s when he met student Nora Marks.
An archaeologist’s field guide to coffee cans
Hills Bros. coffee was so popular in Alaska it inspired a local archaeologist to produce a field guide, the “Hills Bros. Coffee Can Chronology.”