Joaqlin Estus

Joaqlin Estus ICT Artist Crystal Worl stood atop a lift some 40 feet in the air in downtown Anchorage last week to observe the horizon, a yellow sun in a blue sky. Paint cans in hand, the artist was meticulously searching for spots of the sun in need…

An Alaska Native start-up company, with revenues that skyrocketed in the last seven years, was recognized for its success and excellence in corporate citizenship this week. The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development presented its…

‘…my bloodline is Indigenous to this land; its DNA is my DNA’ A coalition of tribal, conservation and business organizations has filed suit challenging a decision to open the nation’s largest national forest, the Tongass in southeast Alaska, to…

‘Subsistence is absolutely critical to our survival; without it we don't exist out here’ When her granddaughter’s COVID-19 test results came back negative, Rosita Worl decided it was time to celebrate. The Tlingit woman took out the last of her…

‘We’re doing the best that we can to help everybody’ Heavy rain and comparatively warm weather in Alaska has two people missing, and scores of people displaced from their damaged or destroyed homes while others are working to open essential roads and…

‘He had this vision of what needed to be accomplished for the renaissance of Tlingit culture' Kingeisti David G. Katzeek, Tlingit, died suddenly last week, leaving a gaping hole in the ceremonial, educational and community life of his people. He was…