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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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Some common threads among a group of trailblazing Native women lawyers invite to speak at an American Bar Association panel to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
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The ACLU of Alaska held a ceremony at a recent fundraiser to remember 18 inmates who died in 2023 and a total of 11, who the ACLU says died this year — three more deaths than reported by the Department of Corrections. The ACLU claims the DOC is undercounting inmate deaths to avoid accountability.
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"Native Shorts" Presented by Sundance Institutes Indigenous Films Program is now in production for it's fourth season. We spoke with co-host Ariel Tweto about her experiences with the show.
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The focus of the U.S. Interior's Sunday listening session at the Alaska Native Heritage Center was on abuse that occurred in Native boarding schools in Alaska like the Wrangell Institute. But Lingít elder Bob Sam asked Secretary Deb Haaland not to forget the children who died, after they were sent to federally funded institutions outside Alaska like Morningside Hospital in Portland, Oregon and the Baby Louise Haven, an orphanage in nearby Salem.
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Anchorage is U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's Road to Healing Tour, a journey she undertook to collect stories from Native boarding school survivors about the abuse they suffered in government schools. The day started with painful testimony and culminated with the raising of the nation's first healing totem dedicated to boarding school survivors and their families.
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"Little Bird," now streaming on Crave, is a compelling Canadian series that examines self-discovery, the sixties scoop, and the vital role of authentic Indigenous storytelling in reshaping our historical understanding and shaping a brighter future.
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Whether they live in a cozy cul-de-sac, or in a tent camp, most people can answer this question: What is the meaning of home? The only problem, is, if you're living in a shelter or on the streets, it's not easy to talk about. That's why "Keys to Life," an Anchorage non-profit asked people who struggle with housing to reflect on the meaning of home through paintings, poems and songs.
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Old battles over rural subsistence priority and jurisdiction over fishing in navigable waters has been dormant in recent years, but a battle over Kuskokwim River fisheries management has reawakened the debate.
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The Alaska Federation of Natives Convention departs from tradition, and will begin a day early with an evening event set aside to honor Alaska Native veterans.
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Prison Policy Initiative, a Massachusetts-based think tank, calls attention to Alaska's disproportionately high rate of incarceration for Alaska Natives and American Indians, leading the list of state prisons, in which Natives are overrepresented.