First Friday for the shortest month of 2025 features performances from the second annual Juneau Jazz Fest, a trio of exhibitions at the Alaska State Museum and an artists’ market at the Walter ...

The Hearst Foundations has awarded the Emergency Food Network with a $150,000 grant. The Hearst Foundations has awarded Washington State University with a $150,000 grant. The Hearst Foundations has ...

As a descendant of Inupiaq Eskimos, I have been living and ... in the 1860s began a campaign to eradicate Indigenous languages, religion, art, music, dance, ceremonies and lifestyles.

Indigenous fashion designer says scam pages pretending to sell Indigenous art and clothing becoming more common ...

Martin Kimani, a former Kenyan diplomat, said his past work positions him to build on the Africa Center’s diverse programming that goes beyond art. With major gifts to leading arts institutions ...

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They were top-of-mind for her when she was considering whether to run for office. As a school board member, she had successfully worked to reestablish the Inupiaq immersion program that she had once ...

Photo by Scott Haugen At school on Monday, our Inupiaq Language teacher and long-time Point Lay resident, Lorena Neakok, hugged us and told us how scared she had been for us. Like most villagers, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Interior Department said no bids were submitted for last week's oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a sale the state has challenged ...