'At the Alaska Federation of Natives convention new resolutions vow to “protect, defend, and enhance Alaska Native subsistence rights and practices for the benefit of future generations.'

I always say, ‘We will hear the voices of our ancestors,’ and we are now hearing it through our children.”

On the 142nd anniversary of the Angoon Bombardment in Southeast Alaska, the Navy formally apologized for the unprovoked attack.

‘There is a concerted effort to erase us’

‘our children will be thanking you and singing your glory’

‘The Convention is the largest representative annual gathering in the United States of Native peoples’

The Zuni Olla Maidens, of the Zuni Pueblo, dance with precious pottery balanced on their heads. (Screen shot from a National Endowment for the Arts video by Hypothetical films). ICT Staff The National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage…

Wendy Red Star (Photo courtesy of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.) The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Tuesday its 2024 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant." The 22 fellows will each…

A participant writes on a message board adorned with notes for loved ones who took their own lives during an Out of the Darkness Walk event organized by the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in Sawyer Point park,…

Candace Frank gets a red handprint pressed onto her face at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Rally in Juneau on May 5, 2022. (Lisa Phu / Alaska Beacon) ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Despite Alaska’s small population, a 2018 report by the Urban Indian…

ICT ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Native corporations are worried as the U.S. Small Business Administration is talking about changes to a program that has brought billions in revenues to disadvantaged companies, which make up just over 10 percent of all…

Left to right: Jackson Brossy, Assistant Administrator, Office of Native American Afairs, SBA; Erica Rivera, Deputy District Director, Alaska District Office, SBA; Kendra Conroy, Associate State Director, Alaska Small Business Development Center;…

A leader in the national and regional tribal housing arena has passed away. Brook B. Kristovich died on July 13, 2024 at the age of 61. He was Nishga and Ingiluk Athabascan and was an enrolled member of the Native Village of Napaimute in Alaska.…

On Monday in Milwaukee, the Forest County of Potawatomi signed a compact with the U.S. Department of Transportation. Compacts are funding agreements that give tribes more autonomy in managing services for their citizens’ needs. The Potawatomi are the…

CorrectedJoaqlin EstusICT ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A southeast Alaska tribe is continuing to respond to a glacial outburst that flooded some 290 homes in Juneau, the state capital. Early estimates show around 14.6 billion gallons of water were released…

Unuk River (Photo by U.S. Geological Survey) ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A group of Southeast Alaska tribes requested on Aug. 1 that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights order a temporary pause on Canadian mining activity. They say “reckless” mining…

Juneau's Mendenhall Valley flood, Aug. 7, 2024 (Photo courtesy of City and Borough of Juneau) ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and a regional housing authority have activated emergency operations to…

In this Oct. 7, 2014, photo, Crawford Patkotak, above center, leads a prayer flanked by his sons Josiah, in green suspenders, Arnold, in white bib, and Samuel, fourth from right, after his crew landed a bowhead whale near Barrow, Alaska. Both revered…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A village is suing to get more safeguards and a more in-depth environmental analysis of an open pit mine and transportation corridor to an ore-processing mill in Interior Alaska. The Manh Choh (or “big lake” in Athabascan) gold…

In 2021, after Evon Peter left a high-level position in academia, he and his family built their "biggest smokehouse ever,' and spent weeks catching, preparing, and smoking and drying salmon. (Photo by Nanieezh Peter, courtesy of Evon Peter) In…