SITKA, Alaska - In the Tlingit story of Strong Man, the hero, Dukt'ootl', grows up building his strength until one day he is ready to become a leader of his people. The challenges that face teens ...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Sitka artist Teri Rofkar sees a natural connection between art and science for Native people. "When explaining the Tlingit world view, we didn't have a word for art," Rofkar said.

SITKA, Alaska -- In 1804, nearly a century before the Klondike gold rush, Russian fur traders defeated Alaska's Tlingit Indians in the Battle of Sitka and proceeded to transform the Tlingit's ...

The Sitka Tlingit Village in 2024. (James Poulson/National Trust for Historic Preservation) There's a lonely old church in the mountains of West Virginia that holds a hidden history. Black coal miners ...

A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the Tlingit language, classified as on the edge of extinction, by pairing fluent elders with ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Army veteran Richard Bean Sr. died without anyone knowing that he and four other long-deceased Alaska Natives had used their Tlingit language to outsmart the Japanese during ...

Rain drips down 6-year-old Ryker’s face. He’s placed a small patch of moss atop his head, demonstrating how to cool off on a summer day. A typical Southeast Alaskan, he declares, “It’s 50 degrees!” ...

Oct. 21—What did it take to be among Alaska's first pioneers? Who were the colonists rushing north in 1867 after the United States purchased Russia's interest in Alaska? The first white settler girl ...

The setting of Sitka, Alaska, in a tranquil bay on Baranof Island, is nothing short of spectacular. Tiny islands dense with evergreen trees dot the blue-green water, which is crisscrossed by dozens of ...

“When explaining the Tlingit world view, we didn’t have a word for art,” Rofkar said. “We didn’t have a word for science, either. We were investigating all the time. We had to be in tune with the ...