UPDATE: On Thursday, Anchorage police released an update concerning the arrests made in the Black Angus parking lot where Keith Tracey and Louis Tavaras were taken into custody and it was announced that Krystie L. Stevenson was being sought on a warrant for Felony Evading and Fail to Stop. Following APD’s announcement, Stevenson contacted […]
Alaska State Troopers divulged on Thursday that the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage has revealed the identities of the passengers in the fatal Yute Air crash 12 miles southwest of Tuntutukliak that occurred on February 6th. The flight, a Piper PA-32R Cherokee, had been traveling from Bethel to Kipnuk one hundred miles distant […]
Yute Air revealed the name of the pilot of the scheduled commuter air crash that occurred on Thursday 12 miles southwest of Tuntutuliak as that of Tony Matthews. The aircraft, a Piper PA-32R Cherokee, had been traveling from Bethel to Kipnuk when it went down. Troopers in Bethel were notified of the overdue aircraft at […]
Native American representation in Congress made great strides with the 2018 election of two American women to Congress. Now, the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma says it will send its own delegate to Congress, a move that will test both the tribe’s sovereignty and the willingness of the U.S. to meet its treaty promises. Newly-elected […]
After receiving a report of a body in Fairbanks on Monday morning at 12:44 am, troopers responded to the address to open an investigation. As the investigation progressed, troopers would determine that the woman’s death was “suspicious in nature.” The investigation into the death of the victim, identified as 69-year-old Trisha Pearson, of Fairbanks, […]
Detail of portrait of Shoshoni Chief Tendoi Demonstrating Sign Language. (Photo by Charles M. Bell, circa 1880, courtesy National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) In early September 1930, the Blackfeet Nation of Montana hosted a historic Indian Sign Language Grand Council, gathering leaders of a dozen North American Nations and language groups. The three-day […]