Ned Ahgupuk and girlfriend Kelsi Rock, stand for a photo with their 1-year-old son Steve Rock-Ahgupuk while strolling along the beach on the Arctic Ocean in Shishmaref, Alaska, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.

Archive Photos/Getty Images 1880: Alaska was populated by many Native tribes for thousands of years. Today, the two biggest tribes are the Yup'ik and the Tlingit.

Because of their location, diesel costs almost four times the national average — the Alaska Native community spent $900,000 on fuel in 2024 alone.

Then, in 1971, Congress passed a law called the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that said the tribes no longer owned the land, but they could make a claim for a certain amount of acreage on ...

For Alaska Natives, these are existential threats. On a trip to Southeast Alaska, I traveled to one village that is finding new ways to survive: Klukwan, ancestral home of the Tlingit tribe.

SHISHMAREF, Alaska (AP) -- "Home sweet home." That's how Helen Kakoona calls her Alaska Native village of Shishmaref when asked what it means to live on a ...

In this Inupiat village of 600 residents live mostly off subsistence hunting of seals, fishing and berry picking. Some fear that if they move, they'd lose that traditional way of life that they've ...