In 1931, a Smithsonian anthropologist excavated the bones of 24 men, women and children from a village site near Igiugig. After eight decades in the museum’s collection, those remains were reburied near their original places of rest.
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At Katmai’s Brooks Camp, tourists and bears mingle mostly carefree
Katmai Natioanl Park & Preserve rangers estimated they had 40 individual bears at Brooks in July, not including cubs, being observed by 300 to 400 visitors each day.
NASA Mars mission gets an assist from Delta-grown engineer
Thousands of miles to the south of us, engineers at NASA are hard at work on the NeMO Mission, the next orbiter mission to Mars. They got a little help this summer from an engineering intern from Bethel, and something called the Muktuk Plot.
World’s largest collection of Yup’ik and Cup’ik videos becoming available online
The collection captures glimpses of nearly a half-century of life on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and for the first time it’s available to anyone searching the web.
Kodiak opposes salmon cap agenda change
Kodiak is gearing up to oppose what it considers a threat to its fisheries. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game released a study last year that found a percentage of Kodiak area sockeye salmon are Cook Inlet fish. Some Cook Inlet fishermen now want to set caps for sockeye salmon in the Kodiak area.
In Quinhagak, an ivory carver pays tribute to the ancients’ work
An exhausted team of archaeologists on the Bering Sea coast just finished their dig at Nunalleq for the year after uncovering hundreds of artifacts. They plan to return to the 700-year-old village next summer, provided the winter storms don’t wash it away.
Family returns to Kodiak after 10 years sailing around the world
Mike Litzow and Alisa Abookire raised their two sons while living a sea-faring nomadic lifestyle. The couple returned to Kodiak this July after roughly 10 years of sailing the world. Now, the family plans to call Kodiak home for the foreseeable future.
Troopers say man attempted to smuggle heroin to Bethel
According to court documents, troopers approached William “Billy” Aloysius, 33, at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on August 31 as he was waiting for his flight home to Bethel.
Twenty-three Bethel residents, mostly cab drivers, charged with bootlegging
Twenty-three Bethel residents, most of them cab drivers, were charged Friday for allegedly selling alcohol without a license after a two-year-long undercover investigation. The State of Alaska is charging 18 cab drivers, who come from every Bethel cab company: Quyana Cab, Kusko Cab, Taxi Cab, and Alaska Taxi.
Building community fish harvest monitors to create ‘change on the Kusko’
Increased control over natural resources, like fish, is a top priority for Kuskokwim tribes. One way to move in that direction is through collecting harvest data during fishing season, which helps with the difficult job of in-season management.