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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in ...
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US Court of Appeals Deals Setback for Native American Voting Rights
Native Vote. On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit declined to reconsider its controversial ruling ...
A Native American Pastime: July 4th is time for the World Series of Stickball
The Stickball World Series takes place in conjunction with the annual Choctaw Indian Fair in Choctaw, Mississippi.
Ancient, Native American trails near Cahokia Mounds connected to old Aztec capital
A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...
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Talking to North Carolina’s Latest Pulitzer Prize Winner
Durham historian Kathleen DuVal's latest book, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America," spans more than 700 pages.
Alaska Native becomes first female Orthodox North American saint
An Alaska Native woman is the newest saint for the Orthodox Church in America. St. Olga was canonized last week in the tiny southwest Alaska village of Kwethluk, and she is the first female Orthodox ...
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy's new saint?
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
This 1930s photo provided by her family shows Olga Michael, an Alaskan Yup’ik woman who became St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska, the first female North American saint in the Orthodox ...