Shea Siegert, senior manager of external affairs at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and Kelsey Wallace, president of the Alaska Native Heritage Center, examine a bag of frozen salmon heads ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. toured tribal health facilities in Kenai on Thursday, while a small group of demonstrators protested his presence and policies. It was ...

Join the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and chef Amy Foote for a lunch and learn session titled “Finding Healing in Alaska Native Traditional Foods.” Foote is director of ...

A traditional Alaska Native foods distribution of herring roe and salmon to communities in Southeast Alaska and elsewhere is on hold due to the Trump administration cancelling a $513,000 federal grant ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Among the losses suffered by Western Alaska victims of ex-Typhoon Halong — destroyed four-wheelers, houses and lives — the destruction of the traditional foods they’d gathered for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 26—There were bites of beluga whale. A jar of seal oil. Hemlock branches coated thick with herring roe. Salmon pies. Salmon ...

Thumbs Up: Traditional Alaska Native food for flood victims. In the wake of Typhoon Halong’s destruction across western Alaska, Alaska Native communities have shown remarkable unity and compassion ...

In running the Metlakatla Indian Community S’ndooyntgm Galts’ap Community Garden, Gatgyeda Haayk has developed a particular relationship to soil. “People misunderstand soil,” she explained. Alongside ...

When natural disasters strike in the Lower 48, people affected are compensated for income lost from wage-earning jobs that have been interrupted, as well as lost assets with assigned financial value.