Alaska Native stories are a major part of this small-ship cruise tour between Ketchikan and Sitka. ... you also have time to visit a gift shop to browse handmade Alaska Native art, pottery, ...

The Alaska Federation of Natives convention kicked off in Anchorage on Thursday. Former AFN president Julie Kitka, who retired last month after more than 30 years heading the organization ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Federation of Natives President Julie Kitka, who is Chugach Eskimo, received a long, loving farewell at the AFN annual convention in Anchorage this week. She announced ...

Santa Claus’ sleigh took on new responsibilities in rural Alaska this week when delivering gifts to an Alaska Native village.Santa’s ride, an Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk ...

YAKUTAT, Alaska (AP) — Forget the open-air sleigh overloaded with gifts and powered by flying reindeer. Santa and Mrs. Claus this week took supersized rides to southeast Alaska in a C-17 ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...

Alaska native Esther Keim began dropping turkeys for rural friends and neighbors three years ago at Thanksgiving from the airplane ... Passengers stuck on hot train receive gift from delivery ...