Once part of the Russian Empire, it is now a remote outpost of the United States, sitting in the far-flung Aleutian Islands chain in Alaska. Despite its location on US soil, it lies closer to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was ... After the war, surviving Attuans were not allowed to return to the island because the U.S. military said it would be too expensive to ...

never to return. 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 war ...