Quuq; Nuya’itstaq – Hide and Seek Uswillraraat quuq’rtut. – The children are playing hide and seek. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken) Hide and seek is one of many popular outdoor children’s games long played in Alutiiq communities. According to anthropologist Kaj Birket-Smith, who visited the Chugach Alutiiq people in the 1930s, children […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama’s commitment to upholding the nation’s trust responsibilities to American Indian and Alaska Natives, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn Wdnesday announced that the Interior Department is seeking public comment on a proposed rule that would allow the Secretary of the Interior to consider petitions from Alaska Native tribes to take […]
In a phone call delivered to U.S. Senator Mark Begich’s office from the Department of Interior (DOI), DOI Announced the end of federal rules that have prohibited DOI from taking land into trust for Alaska Native tribes. The reversal of these regulations after much litigation brings Alaska tribes one step closer to tribal self-determination, which […]
A Kiana man is behind bars and facing two Felony counts after shooting four dogs belonging to his mother earlier this month according to KNOM in Nome. 42-year-old Carl Henry Jr. was arrested earlier this week on Felony charges of Criminal Mischief and Cruelty to Animals. He also has one misdemeanor charge of Assault leveled at him. Henry’s […]