1,000-year-old cache pit unearthed in Alaska reveals ancient Dene food storage methods
The Dene people, or Athabascans, including the Dena'ina and Ahtna tribes, traditionally used these areas for summer fishing ...
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An ancient Dene cache discovered at JBER highlights Anchorage’s Indigenous history
Aaron Leggett, president of Native Village of Eklutna ... or Athabaskan, culture. In Alaska, the Dene include Dena’ina and Ahtna people, as well as other cultural groups of the Interior and ...
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1,000-Year-Old Indigenous Food Cache Containing Traces Of Moose And Caribou Found In Alaska
"It's just like a little time capsule." Archaeologists in Alaska were recently exploring a trail that runs along Upper Cook ...
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A McKinley descendent voices a compromise after Trump orders Denali renamed
He said he told him: "'Alaska Native people named that mountain over 10,000 ... a citizen of the Ahtna Dene and Pyramid Lake Paiute tribes. "Taking that away is yet another way to not recognize ...
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Archaeologists Unearth Rare 1,000-Year-Old Food Storage Pit in Alaska
Initial findings suggest the cache was used to preserve moose and caribou meat in the harsh climate of southeastern Alaska Eli Wizevich ... the Dena’ina and Ahtna people.
Growing up, these Indigenous creators didn't see themselves on kids' TV. So they made their own
Three Indigenous creators share how they’re reclaiming representation in children’s media, and why it's vital to pass down ...
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Denali vs. McKinley: A brief history of the long debate over what to call North America’s highest mountain
For thousands of years, it has been called not just Denali but a variety of names by Alaska Native people living around ... Dena’ina and Dghelaay Ce’e in Ahtna, Kari wrote.
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1,000-Year-Old Secret Cache Uncovered in Alaska
Long before there was a refrigerator in Alaska, its indigenous people knew how to preserve food using what nature provided.
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Alaska Communications, Nenana Native Association announce broadband project
The Nenana Native Association, Tanana Chiefs Conference and Alaska Communications announced a joint venture last week to ...
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Authorities identify 10 people who died in Alaska plane crash
a nonprofit organization providing health services for Alaska Native people. They worked in the organization's environmental health and engineering department and had traveled to Unalakleet to ...
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New lawsuit seeks to limit Alaska Native tribes’ authority, stop Eklutna gambling hall
Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people gather ... (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) The state of Alaska has filed suit ...
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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
The people who live in those Gulf communities, which are disconnected from the road system and reachable only by plane or ...