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We have to do something. Otherwise, we'll just be part of the ocean, too. The challenges facing Alaska Native villages have been growing for decades. As far back as the 1980s there were warnings ...
When remnants of Typhoon Merbok hit the Alaska Native village of Hooper Bay in 2022, the impact was immediate and — for this roughly 1,400-person town on the edge of the Bering Sea — disastrous.
House Resolution 42 and House Resolution 43 are headed to Donald Trump's desk and are expected to become law soon.
Early last summer, George Kaleak, a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, on an island in the Arctic Ocean just off the state's northern coast, pinned a flyer to the blue ...
A similar story has played out in villages up and down the Gulf of Alaska coast. Angoon, Nondalton, Old Harbor — each of those small Native communities is home to a fraction of the commercial ...
That trend has left some Alaska Native villages fighting for their survival — and even facing relocation, as a new short documentary from FRONTLINE and the Howard Center for Investigative ...