Darrell Crawford has the oldest DNA found in North America — a genetic line that was traced back a whopping 55 generations.

In modern times, subsistence has become a political issue, one that affects everyone in the state. Beginning in 1978, Alaska created ... their livelihoods. Native Alaskans who lived in cities ...

a process that included the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline authorization (1973). The Native claims act gave Congress until 1978 to do something about ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...

Willie Hensley: "I think that paper, for the first time, gave not only me, but many other people, a sort of a historical, legal and policy view of what Alaska Native rights were." That same year ...

The number of Americans who identify at least partially as American Indian or Alaska Native grew from 5.2 million in 2010 to 9.7 million in 2020 – an 85% increase, according to the most recent ...