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Mar 07 2019
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Robert Melovidov holds up fur seal meat that he’s preparing to cook in his home on St. Paul island in January. Unangan people on St. Paul like Melovidov have been pushing the federal government for more than a decade for more freedom to harvest the fur seals they share the island with.

For decades, the government stood between the Unangan people and the seals they subsist on. Now that’s changing.

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Alaska's Energy Desk, Aleutians, Arts & Culture, History, Subsistence

On remote St. Paul Island, federal rules have restricted subsistence hunting for years, forcing residents to buy expensive groceries. New rules could take effect soon, but opponents worry about a declining local seal population.

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Jan 07 2019
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A view from the interior of Trail Creek Cave 2, the site where the ancient Beringian tooth was originally found by Danish archaeologists in 1949.

Found in a cave in Northwest Alaska, an ancient tooth offers insights into the first inhabitants of the Americas

By | Arctic, History, Northwest, Science & Tech, University of Alaska

A 9,000-year-old child’s tooth found in a cave near Deering, Alaska, belonged to a “relative of all other Native Americans,” says archaeologist Jeff Rasic. The tooth is the oldest human remains found in the Arctic.

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Dec 22 2018
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Situated on Gonzaga’s campus, between the university’s business school and the St. Aloysius Rectory, Cardinal Bea House played host to at least 20 Jesuit priests accused of sexual abuse.

Two former Jesuit officials resign from Gonzaga University after revelations about abusive priests

By | Community, History, Northwest News Network, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Western

Two priests in high-level positions at Gonzaga University resigned today. Both previously held leadership roles in the Jesuits’ Oregon Province while it sent Jesuits accused of sexual abuse to live in a home on campus.

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