[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the year 1620, Native Americans met the English settlers who arrived in the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Those settlers, known as Pilgrims, helped launch the United States as we know it today. But for the Native Americans who had long been living in the area, the settlers’ arrival was “the beginning of the end,” […]
WASHINGTON — On his Facebook page, a father grieves the loss of his 10-year-old daughter, whom he had affectionately nicknamed “Dimples.” Her body was found last month in the remote tundra outside of Kotzebue, a northwest Alaska town that has been home to the Inupiat people for centuries. A 41-year-old man from the same community has […]
The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) is pleased to share the 2018 Convention Agenda! This year’s Convention theme, Innovation: Past, Present and Future, inspired a robust three days of panels, presentations, and engagement. Highlights will include speeches from Governor Bill Walker, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan, U.S. Representative Don Young, the Alaska State Legislature Speaker […]
Humans living in Northwest Alaska have for the past five millennia had to face and overcome challenges to their way of life and to life itself. Eking out a living in a region which can be iced over for as much as nine months of the year requires discipline, imagination, and determination. The Inupiat people dwelling there […]