Cultural expert Paul Ongtooguk and two boarding school survivors, Jim Aqpayuk LaBelle and Fred John Jr., shared their perspectives with Talk of Alaska on the legacy of boarding schools in Alaska.
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BIA opens Anchorage office to investigate cold cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people
Some 300 Alaska Native people are in an FBI missing-persons database.
In rural Alaska, school districts deal with a legacy of unaddressed contamination
Typically, when a contaminated site is discovered it’s up to the landowner — or the person responsible for making the mess — to clean it up. But there are dozens of sites where this process has broken down.
Village of Newtok finds rebirth at Mertarvik
Over the last month and a half, a decade-long project to move the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta village of Newtok is finally beginning to take shape. The new village site held a ribbon in Mertarvik, which means “a place for water.”
New federal rule could prevent litigation over Native children in state custody
The regulations aim to make interpretation of the Indian Child Welfare Act more consistent, regardless of the state, judge or social worker involved.