Alaska Native Language map. Source: Alaska Geographic Alliance. Click image for a larger view At the time of contact with Russian explorers in the mid-18th century, Alaska was occupied by ...

Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native Alaskans, members of indigenous groups who inhabited Alaska before it was colonized by Russia. Native ...

Author Holly Miowak Guise is set to present her groundbreaking book, "Alaskan Native Resilience: Voices from World War II" on ...

Apagzuk Roy Aploinga, Inupiat, is president and CEO of the First Alaskans Institute, an Alaska Native policy and advocacy nonprofit. “(Our) people have always lived in this land,” he said.

U.S. News Insider Tip: Be sure to allow plenty of time for visiting each of the village sites surrounding the center's Lake Tiulana, and stop to talk with the Alaska Native youth at each.

The tribal health consortium’s ambition is to become the hospital owner by the end of the year, its new president said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...