Yvonne Krumrey, KTOO

Language educators in Juneau are working to create a Master’s in Teaching program for Indigenous languages at the University of Alaska Southeast. It would be the first of its kind in Alaska.

Monday is Elizabeth Peratrovich Day, an Alaska State holiday honoring a Lingít activist who testified before Alaska’s territorial legislature in Juneau to demand civil rights for Alaska Native people.

While tribal corporation leadership says their operations are separate from the detention center on the military base, what's happening on the ground may tell a different story.

Lily Hope has taught hundreds of traditional weavers.