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Congressman Don Young Introduces Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Safeguard Tribal Items

By Zack Brown | Office of Representative Young on May 8, 2021   Featured, National, National/World, State  

Congressman Don Young Introduces Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Safeguard Tribal Items

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Don Young (R-AK), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples, and Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM), Chair of the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples, have introduced the STOP Act, bipartisan legislation to prohibit the exporting of sacred Native American items and increase penalties for stealing and illegally trafficking Tribal cultural patrimony. Upon introduction, […]

Old World Metals Traded on Alaska Coast Hundreds of Years Before Contact

By Amy Patterson Neubert | Purdue University on Jun 11, 2016   North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Rural, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Old World Metals Traded on Alaska Coast Hundreds of Years Before Contact

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Two leaded bronze artifacts found in northwestern Alaska are the first evidence that metal from Asia reached prehistoric North America prior to contact with Europeans, according to new Purdue University research.  “This is not a surprise based on oral history and other archaeological finds, and it was just a matter of […]

Ghost Ship Artifacts Emerge in Museum

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Mar 28, 2016   At Sea, Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Ghost Ship Artifacts Emerge in Museum

Ships with no humans aboard have long ridden the seas, often floating with supernatural stories of being piloted by dead crew members or becoming visible to sailors and then vanishing. Alaska has its own ghost ship. Workers for the Hudson Bay Company abandoned the S.S. Baychimo just offshore of Wainwright 85 years ago. Sea ice […]

Kodiak Island Borough Donates Artifacts to Alutiiq Museum

By Brian Fraley | Alutiiq Museum on May 15, 2015   Featured, General News, Koniag Region, Southcentral  

Kodiak Island Borough Donates Artifacts to Alutiiq Museum

At their May 7th meeting, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted to donate nine collections of artifacts to the Alutiiq Museum. The objects, mostly stone tools documenting Native history, came from borough lands on the coasts of Afognak Island, Chiniak Bay, Womens Bay, and Woody Island. They were recovered during archaeological research, and have been […]

Artwork Found at Ancient House Site

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on May 8, 2015   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Artwork Found at Ancient House Site

At the edge of a spruce forest in Interior Alaska, archaeologists have unearthed bone pendants that might be the first examples of artwork in northern North America. During the last two summers, teams led by UAF’s Ben Potter have expanded the breadth of the Mead Site, a white spruce bench that overlooks Shaw Creek Flats […]

Serpentine Hot Springs and Early Alaskans

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Apr 24, 2015   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Serpentine Hot Springs and Early Alaskans

Skiing across the raw, open landscape of the Seward Peninsula a few weeks ago, my friends and I dreamed of getting out of a big wind and into the tub at Serpentine Hot Springs. Though none of us had been there, we all recognized the Serpentine valley by black tors guarding the surrounding hillsides. With […]

Ancient, Melting Ice Patches On Mountain Slopes Yield Clues To Athabascan History

By Linda Weld on Nov 7, 2014   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Ancient, Melting Ice Patches On Mountain Slopes Yield Clues To Athabascan History

WRANGELL MOUNTAINS: Over 14,000 years ago, much of North America was covered in ice, starting at the Alaska Range, and moving down all the way to what are now the cities of Chicago and New York. The ice was very thick — miles thick. Then, it abruptly melted over much of the northern hemisphere. Except in […]



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