Early on Friday morning, the Tununak Tribal Police Officer called in to the Alaska State Troopers in Bethel and reported a structure fire with a possible fatality. The call initiated by the Tununak Tribal Police Officer to troopers at 1:21 am on Friday, reported a residential fire in the small community. Troopers were informed that […]
For the fourth time in 16 days, tragedy has struck the small community of Hooper Bay, troopers reported the fourth suicide to occur in the small southwestern community on Saturday. It was at 2:23 pm on Saturday that troopers received a report from Hooper Bay, informing them that 21-year-old Carl Dominic Robert Joe was found deceased […]
On Wednesday, a report went in to the Alaska State Troopers in Aniak, that a Aniak resident had criminally trespassed into the school in that community. The caller, from the Kuspuk School District, reported that 60-year-old John Thomas Simeon, who had previously been trespassed from the elementary school, had entered the school, and was still […]
Sealaska Heritage Institute’s work on the Tlingit language was chosen by a federal humanities agency as one of 50 projects in the country that has enriched and shaped American lives during the last half century. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) singled out SHI’s efforts to document and revitalize the Tlingit language as part […]