In running the Metlakatla Indian Community S’ndooyntgm Galts’ap Community Garden, Gatgyeda Haayk has developed a particular relationship to soil. “People misunderstand soil,” she explained. Alongside ...

Kwigillingok, Alaska, has long grappled with erosion and flooding. Residents want to move to higher ground, further inland, especially after the remnants of Typhoon Halong damaged nearly every house.

Nearly 30 million acres of federal lands in Alaska are available to Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans who were on active ...

The First Alaskans Institute’s annual gala awards rarely get much attention outside of the black-tie fundraiser where they’re given. The honors typically go to people whose work has aligned with the ...

A small Native community in the remote North Slope borough of Alaska has been at the center of debates in Washington, D.C., over bringing “drill, baby, drill” to its backyard — and it isn’t completely ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Callan Chythlook-Sifsof grew up in the part of Alaska known as “The Bush” and spent her first 12 years in a village about 500 miles northwest of Anchorage, a place ...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center entrance (photo by Jesse Darling, all images courtesy the Alaska Native Heritage Center, unless otherwise noted) America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Leaders in Alaska ...

Native mothers deserve to survive pregnancy. They deserve to thrive after it. And they deserve a health care system that values their lives as much as it values the lives they bring into the world.

In my role at the intersection of Native communities and philanthropy, I’ve had to navigate between two different value systems. My core values are Indigenous. I grew up in the Seattle urban Indian ...

“[They] were passionate about the work they did, cared deeply for the communities they served, and made a lasting impact,” the CEO of their company said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...