Excerpted from The Native People of Alaska by Steve J. Langdon, published by Greatland Graphics, Anchorage ... Aleut: 1750-1780: Southern Eskimo: 1780-1840: Northern Eskimo: 1850-1870: Interior ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

TATITLEK, Alaska — Steve Totemoff keeps faith alive in this tiny Alaskan village -- the Russian Orthodox faith. Totemoff, a native Aleut, keeps the faith when he caulks, paints, or replaces the ...

Denise Wallace is a jewelry artist of Native Alaskan Aleut descent, who worked with her husband, Samuel Wallace (1936-2010). She maintains and modifies a walrus-ivory carving tradition.

Lauren Peters is an enrolled member of the Agdaagux Tribe in the Unangax Nation, also known at Aleut, in the land and waters that are now considered the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands of Alaska. St.

The first time I sailed Alaska’s ocean-going ferry Tustumena on its Aleutian run, I met a prospector. He said his name was Tommy. In his 60s, he had driven his pickup from Mississippi to Homer ...

It's getting harder and harder for the few remaining residents of the Aleutian and Pribilof islands who speak Aleut to hold a conversation. Only about 100 people still speak the Alaskan native ...

The words “Eskimo” and “Aleut” remain part of the logo of the Alaska Federation of Natives. Both "Eskimo" and "Aleut" are still used about 100 times in other federal statutes, dealing with ...

Its main Alaska Native cultural group is Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and Aleut. In the Sealaska region there are 12 village corporations, 24 communities, and 0 tribes.

DAN O’HEARN’S house in Atka, Alaska, faces east, out over the Bering Sea, the rising sun. “It’s a pleasant view,” says O’Hearn, who teaches middle school in Atka… ...

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.. In June 1942, Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian islands in Alaska prompted the US ...