Culu’ulluku; Culurt’slluku – Beach It PaRag’uutateng culurtaarait. – Sometimes they beach their boat. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken.) Most fishermen who know Alutiiq words are familiar with culu’ulluku, a term that means to beach your boat. Whether intentional or accidental, beaching is an age-old way of reaching the shore. In classical Alutiiq […]
Ukraine’s prime minister says Russian military aircraft have repeatedly crossed into Ukraine’s airspace, in what he called Russian aggression designed to undermine global security. Arseniy Yatsenyuk told reporters Saturday that Russian forces had “violated” Ukrainian airspace seven times overnight. “We do understand the reason Russian military did it. The only reason is to provoke […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commended the U.S. Forest Service for administratively enacting language to limit fees on subsistence cabins in the Tongass National Forest that Murkowski originally proposed in the Alaska Subsistence Structure Protection Act of 2013 (S. 736). “It was wrong for the Forest Service to charge subsistence users […]
U.S. Senator Mark Begich welcomed details today from the Indian Health Service (IHS) that summarized the number and amount of contract support cost (CSC) payments made to Alaska tribes for delivery of health care to Alaska Natives and a commitment to a quicker resolution to these claims in the future. He also expressed resolve to […]