Just four months after releasing their first music video, Ix̱six̱án, Ax̱ Ḵwáan, seven Alaska Native youth from Southeast Alaska will debut their most recent music video, Zibit, at Tlingit & Haida’s Celebrating Our Ways of Life event tomorrow evening (November 16, 2018) at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall in Juneau, Alaska. The first music video released […]
Leading the Way Native youth are engaged, resilient, and strong. Some are taking on leadership roles and participating in their youth councils. Others are forming their own youth groups or independent organizations to address issues they see. For those young people who are stepping up to plan and lead health and wellness events, […]
The U.S. Justice Department announced on Friday that dangerous armed carjacker, Cordy Mai Martin, of the South Pacific country of Palau was sentenced to 11 years in prison for a May 2018 carjacking that occurred at the Alaska Native Medical Center. Martin pleaded guilty to Carjacking as well as “using a firearm during and in relation to a crime […]
WASHINGTON — Elsie Boudreau was 10 years old that afternoon in 1978 when Father James Poole called her and two playmates into the office of a small radio station he had founded in Nome, Alaska. “He had us line up against the wall and began asking us questions,” said Boudreau, who grew up in St. Mary’s, […]