Culture & Language

Naataq Gear is a “female-owned, Indigenous-owned business that was founded in 2018 here in Nome, Alaska.”

A vintage, aerial view over Scammon Bay, Alaska, circa 1986

The Alaska Native Collaborative Hub for Research on Resilience and the Statewide Suicide Prevention Council partnered this month to host a webinar on suicide prevention among Alaska Native youth.

Ongoing research is digging into the history of one of Alaska’s oldest archaeological sites.

A collage of four images. A plane on the runway, a construction site, a physician holding a chart next to patient, and a ship on water.

Earlier this month Kawerak and the Northwestern Alaskan Career and Technical Center, or NACTEC, co-received a five-year grant. This grant will allow them to develop careers for tribal members in the Bering Strait Region.

An aerial view of a small, coastal village

The village of Diomede is coming together to build a new grocery store this summer. While the plans are still in development stages, community involvement is strong.

Multiple pink salmon swimming underwater

The prospects are dim for this summer’s Norton Sound commercial fishing and crabbing seasons.

On July 1st, the Kegoayah Kozga Library in Nome will reopen to the public, after a year of providing digital books and other services online.

Earlier this month Seppilu completed the last of three long-distance runs on each of Nome’s roads, in the name of hope and suicide prevention. On Friday she achieved another milestone…

A bill that protects walrus ivory from state bans passed the Science, Commerce, and Transportation Committee in Washington DC last month.

From program instructor Kiminaq Alvanna-Stimpfle: “Providing our children with an opportunity to learn Inupiaq will positively impact our community by raising children who are grounded in who they are: Inupiat.”