by alaskabusiness | Jul 18, 2019 | Alaska Native, Education, Featured, Media & Arts, News
The groundbreaking new PBS KIDS series, Molly of Denali, premiered this week on PBS stations. Here are the profiles of six people whose efforts gave the show its Alaska Native authenticity.
by alaskabusiness | Jul 16, 2019 | Alaska Native, News, Tourism
The annual World Eskimo-Indian Olympic Games (WEIO) will take place at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks from July 17 through 20, 2019.
by alaskabusiness | May 28, 2019 | Alaska Native, Featured, News, Science
Made more than 1,800 years ago, it’s the oldest known human footprint ever found in the North American sub-Arctic.
by alaskabusiness | May 17, 2019 | Alaska Native, Government, News
A proposal to permanently establish November as Alaska Native Heritage Month cleared its final legislative hurdle when it unanimously passed the Senate.
by alaskabusiness | Apr 25, 2019 | Alaska Native, News
More than 450 student athletes from communities across Alaska will gather at the UAA Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage for the 49th Annual NYO Games.
by alaskabusiness | Apr 18, 2019 | Alaska Native, Education, Featured, Media & Arts, News
The University of Alaska Southeast has received a grant to create a Tlingit language radio program and a multimedia Word of the Week Program.
by alaskabusiness | Apr 8, 2019 | Alaska Native, Education, Media & Arts, News
With a $74,000 contract from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Alutiiq Museum and the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak will partner on the Pinguat (Beads) Project—a two-year effort to study and teach Alutiiq beading.
by alaskabusiness | Mar 5, 2019 | Alaska Native, Architecture, Featured, Media & Arts, News, Tourism
Alutiiq Museum Executive Director April Counceller has been honored by the Alaska Anthropological Association for her work leading the developing of the Alutiiq Ancestors’ Memorial, a new public park in downtown Kodiak.
by alaskabusiness | Mar 5, 2019 | Alaska Native, Education, Media & Arts, Right Moves, Tourism
At the Alutiiq Museum, Marlise is currently working to connect with artists.
by alaskabusiness | Feb 4, 2019 | Alaska Native, Education, Fisheries, Media & Arts, News
Sealaska Heritage Institute has released the most comprehensive book ever published on traditional northern Northwest Coast halibut hooks, known as náxw in Tlingit.