The kayak term originates from one of the 14 dialects in the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family. Kayaks were custom-built by ...

Anchorage is home to some of the most diverse public schools in the country. The school district relies on specialized ...

The epic Thule migration, according to some, may have crossed the entirety of the Arctic from Alaska to Greenland in just a ...

Local family services society Nenan Dane zaa Deh Zona has released a Facebook post commemorating International Inuit Day on ...

Based in Bethel, Alaska, Vainio currently practices medicine with the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation. Many of his patients are Yupik Alaska natives — some 26,000 people spread among 58 villages in ...

Melanie Banhke, Siberian Yupik, is president and CEO for the regional nonprofit Kawerak. She said she met Kitka at an Elders and Youth Conference when she was 13 or 14. “What a role model. So I’ve ...

The most common of these languages is Navajo, also known as Diné, with nearly 170,000 speakers, followed by Yupik and Dakota, each with about 19,000 speakers. Most Native North American language ...

The district is made up of 27 schools and has a total enrollment of just under 4,000 Yupik Eskimo students. The only way to travel between schools is either by bush plane, boat, or snowmobile. The ...

Mung beans are growing in popularity in the United States, but they've been a major ingredient in several other cuisines for ...