Alaska Native News

WASHINGTON — The United States observes its Columbus Day holiday on Monday as well Indigenous Peoples Day. Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1971 to celebrate the 1492 landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. Recognition of the violence, disease and other suffering inflicted by European nations on the people already living in the […]

Nanwalek (formerly English Bay) — Nanwalek Kina Nanwalegmek? – Who is from Nanwalek? The Alutiiq village of Nanwalek lies on the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula, just ten miles southwest of Seldovia. Although Alutiiq people have lived in this region for thousands of years, the community of Nanwalek began as a Russian trading post, […]

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—Last week, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) introduced the Alaska Native Vietnam Veterans Land Allotment Fulfillment Act of 2026. This legislation builds on Sen. Sullivan’s longstanding efforts to fulfill the federal government’s commitment to Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans by making additional federal lands available for allotment selection. The bill would immediately open approximately 3.7 […]

Note: After finally cleaning my stovepipe last weekend, it feels like woodstove season at my cabin can officially (and safely) begin. Carla Helfferich wrote this wood power-focused Alaska Science Forum column on Oct. 3, 1990. — Sara Wilbur A strange thing happens at my house every October: the woodstove seems to get bigger. It’s been […]

The Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is holding a public meeting (in accordance with Alaska Statutes 16.12.010–16.12.110) for the purpose of taking public comment on the issuance of a private nonprofit hatchery permit to Bering Sea Fisheries Research Foundation for operation of the Saint Paul Hatchery (SPH) in Saint Paul, Alaska […]