"Inupiaq"

The company’s Yup’ik translations turned out to be a mish-mash of phrases lifted from an 80-year-old book of Russian language and folklore.

The translated documents were supposed to offer information on how to apply for financial assistance.

Corporations and tribes serve the same communities, but sometimes the two entities are at odds or struggle to coordinate over community decisions.

Alice Bioff’s designs merge traditional and cultural Alaska Native values with modern materials.

Bering Strait regional nonprofit Kawerak has published a language glossary that provides research, science, policy and resource management terms in English, Inupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik and Yup’ik.

The games are based on hunting and survival skills that allowed the Inupiaq people to live in Arctic conditions.

Over the first two days, captains will haul the whaling boats up and show off their crews flags before cutting up the whale for the large communal feast. 

In Perseverance Theatre’s “A Tlingit Christmas Carol,” Scrooge is a successful CEO of a Native corporation subsidiary in an unnamed town. He’s also a boarding school survivor.

The annual meeting seeks to strengthen bonds between the oldest and youngest generations of Indigenous people.

“You’re going into the region to the land where people own,” said assembly member Walter Sampson. “And we expect companies to make sure that they take their word to make sure that regional employees are the number one in this region to be hired.”