Alaska has the third-highest rate of intimate partner violence against women in the nation, and men kill women in Alaska at a ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an ...

Southeast Alaska’s regional Native corporation has announced its new president. Aanshawatk’i Sarah Dybdahl will be the first woman to hold the position since Sealaska’s founding in 1972. The Southeast ...

A Yup'ik elder born to nomadic parents in western Alaska just after the start of the Great Depression has become the first person counted in the 2020 Census. Lizzie Chimiugak was honored during a ...

Samuel Atchak was convicted of the murder of Roxanne Smart in 2015, and Marcy McDannel is now investigating whether he could ...

On December 24, 2025, NARF filed an amicus brief supporting an injunction that has blocked the destructive, broad-based ...

For Yup’ik woman Danielle Beaver, 33, sharing her Catholic faith is not just a mission but the reason why she’s alive today. After joining the Native American ministry of the Diocese of Fairbanks, ...

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple ...

In the United States, a combination of historical systematic oppression, poverty, and issues surrounding tribal sovereignty has led to a crisis in the Indigenous community. American Indian and Alaska ...