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ST. PAUL, Alaska – A U.S. official has apologized for the World War II internment of Alaska's Unangan people. Jim Kurth, acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, traveled this week ...
A small creek on Little Kiska Island has been renamed, more than 80 years after it was named by soldiers fighting in the ...
He's written a book called Wisdom Keeper, that's available now, chronicling the stories of his people of the Pribilof Islands and messages from Native elders in Alaska and other countries.
May 30—For decades, Gertrude Svarny has spent every Memorial Day placing small flags around the Unalaska cemetery by the graves of family members who served in the military. Even now, in her 90s ...
For decades, the government stood between the Unangan people and the fur seals they subsist on. But as the seal population declines, the proposed revisions now face opposition from the Humane Society.
ST. PAUL, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. official has apologized for the World War II internment of Alaska's Unangan people. Jim Kurth, acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, traveled this ...
Pvt. George Fox died in Italy in 1944. But even after his remains returned to Unalaska, they were buried in an unmarked grave despite years of work pushing the government to recognize his sacrifice.