Alaska Native Arts & Culture

The totem pole will be installed later and unveiled when the Arts Campus opens. Young said it will probably be in June.

For athlete Alexandria Toloff, the events are more than just the games — they are also about the culture, the dancing, the food and seeing your community come together.

The group is dancing this year without one of its main elders, who died recently of COVID-19.

Some groups are just beginning to dance together again after two years of the pandemic, but the village of Napaskiak remembers a longer period without the drums.

A cedar monument in the park — “Thundering Wings” by Lingít master carver Nathan Jackson — depicts an eagle taking flight.

The state board of education approved the Lower Kuskokwim School District’s request to expand Ayaprun into the extra grade levels.