Culture & Language

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.”

Following Pilgrim Hot Springs’ formal closure for the season in 2018, limited use last summer, and the end of its short-lived produce project, the 320-acre property is getting some new energy.

Pencil sharpener, pencil, and pencil shavings, on top of open, blank notebook

More local and traditional knowledge is set to be a key feature in future school years at Nome Public Schools. That was the Nome School Board’s focus last Tuesday night

A newly realized taskforce has spent the last six months working to incorporate Local and Traditional Knowledge (LTK) into how federal agencies manage marine resources in the Bering Sea. Each year, Alaska fisheries account for over half of the marine fish caught in the United States, according to NOAA’s 2017 Fisheries of the US Report.…

The 2020 Census is not the only counting effort in Western Alaska this year. Debuting in the beginning of February, a comprehensive language survey of Iñupiat will project speaker counts and gauge attitudes of Alaska’s Iñupiaq community. KNOM’s JoJo Phillips reports on the importance of the survey as well as the coalition behind it. In…

State Medical Examiners and the Alaska State Troopers are investigating the case of two human skulls collected from the mouth of the Sinuk River last month.

Last month at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Fairbanks, Senator Dan Sullivan met with veterans from around the state. The discussion centered around newly enacted legislation that will allow Alaska Native Vietnam War veterans to receive allotments of land. In March of 2019, President Donald Trump signed the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management,…

Addressing the widespread use of violence against Alaska Native women was one of the dominating topics at the 2019 Alaska Federation of Natives convention. While, the call for men to step up and do better for women echoed throughout AFN, from elders up to Senator Dan Sullivan, a group of young men at the Elder’s…