One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Alaska's World Eskimo-Indian Olympics ...

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...

I know the more perspicacious among you are wondering what a teeny, tiny baby girl and her young parents have to do with someone named Molly Hootch. Hang on. As you no doubt recall with great clarity, ...

Edited film shot by William Van Valin as leader of the John Wanamaker Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The film, that later toured in a film-lecture series ...

A 45-year-old world record was shattered this month at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics as college student Leif Richards walked 15 feet, 4.5 inches across a greased wood pole, eclipsing the old mark ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- David Smith was a new arrival to the North Slope village of Nuiqsut last year when the former resident of upstate New York cooked up a few turkeys and vat of chili for the Eskimo ...

Aaron Leggett, the president of Native Village of Eklutna, discusses misconceptions and the history of the word "Eskimo" during ANTIQUES ROADSHOW'S 2023 stop in Anchorage, Alaska. Antiques Roadshow is ...