Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that ...

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The Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, is the first Alaska community to begin a full-scale relocation made ...

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Two Native villages in Alaska and a Native village in Washington state will receive $25 million each in federal assistance to help relocate to higher ground in the face of climate-change-driven ...

On July 9, 2025, the President signed into law the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025 (“ANVMLRA”). This legislation will permit Alaska Native Village Corporations to recover ...

Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. (Kristine Sowl photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) (CN) — Three Alaska Native villages and a national conservation organization filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the ...

The last Native American village in Yosemite Valley, destroyed 40 years ago, is being rebuilt in the same spot so that Miwuk Indian youths can learn about their culture. Bill Tucker, who is Miwuk and ...

When Jimmy Riffle was 13 years old, his mother took him to the Native Village refuge at the Seminole reservation in Hollywood, where he met a man who changed his life. Like Jimmy, the man took an ...

There’s a man who comes by the Native American Village at Jazz Fest every year known as “Flyswatter Guy.” Grayhawk Perkins, 65, one of the organizers of the Village — a display of Indigenous culture, ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (AP) -- The last Native American village in Yosemite Valley, destroyed 40 years ago, is being rebuilt in the same spot so that Miwok Indian youths can learn about their culture.