That is why what is happening now should concern all Alaskans. Native organizations across the state are mobilizing to ensure that people who move to urban areas — because their families lack economic ...

“We don't think about subsistence as merely a quantifiable event. Subsistence is a whole structure, it's a way of life,” says Haliehana Alaĝum Ayagaa Stepetin, Unangax̂. (Haliehana Alaĝum Ayagaa ...

A recent opinion piece in the Anchorage Daily News by Tom Kizzia (“The last refuge”) draws a flawed historical parallel by equating Alaska Native organizations’ reliance on federal intervention for ...

Caribou from the Mulchatna herd cross a frozen pond near Eek Lake. According to the latest Arctic report card, inland herds aren't recovering from shifts in climate that impact access to food. A ...

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) allows for whaling on otherwise protected animals when it is conducted by certain indigenous people to satisfy subsistence needs. The rules for aboriginal ...

Minister of Social Policy, Family and Unity Denys Uliutin reported that the subsistence minimum and minimum pension can be significantly increased only after ...