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At the Statewide Native Youth Games, you can hear the sound of fans cheering wildly with enthusiasm, yet somehow the sound of a human mimicking a seal cuts through the roar of the crowd. The art of the seal call is one of the many skills athletes pick up at the games that gives them a distinctly Indigenous flavor.
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The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is traveling the country to collect oral histories from boarding school survivors about the abuse they experienced as children. At a stop in Anchorage, they heard from 20 survivors. Their stories will be preserved in a national archive available to the public.
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For more than a half century, Gary Fife fought against stereotypes and championed stories that were for, by and about Native Americans.
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Fur trapper hats are still an important part of the uniform for Alaska State Troopers and police departments across the state, head gear that draws inspiration from the work of Alaska Native skin sewers.
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The Winter Spiral Walk is an annual tradition at Waldorf, or Steiner schools. Every year before the winter solstice on Dec. 21st, children walk a candlelit spiral made of spruce boughs, to reflect upon winter as a time of spiritual rebirth.
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The U-S Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosted two hearings recently on the fentanyl crisis in Indian Country, hearing from Native representatives and federal experts.
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There are no rehearsals for Anchorage TubaChristmas. It may be the only time that tuba players get their big horns out of the closet to play. But after a brief warm-up at the Anchorage Performing Arts Center, the concert all comes together under the baton of longtime conductor, Neal Haglund.
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There are consequences for feeding moose pumpkins in Alaska, for both the humans and the ungulates.
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Gregory Goldoff was three years old when life changed forever on Attu, a tiny island at the end of the Aleutian chain. His family of nine was among the captives taken by Japanese invaders in 1942. The Golodoffs and the rest of the islanders were sent as as prisoners of war to the Japanese island of Hokkaido. His death marks the last direct connection to the once thriving life on Attu Island, which today is uninhabited.
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Father Michael Oleksa was a bridge between cultures, who lectured widely about cross-cultural communication. His love of Alaska Native cultures began in Southwest Alaska where he studied to become a Russian Orthodox priest.
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A wave over drug overdoses at Covenant House Alaska's youth shelter is being blamed on the synthetic opioid, fentanyl.
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The teens at Covenant House Alaska can count on Ryna Lealai to be straight with them. She escaped life on the streets. And while it wasn't an easy journey, she's survived to help others.