The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

In addition, the bill provided $5 million compensation for the Aleuts for destruction of their villages and community property, plus $1.4 million for destroyed church property.

Military leaders and a senator from Alaska have have discussed reviving a World War II-era base on Adak as part of the U.S. Arctic strategy.

Set in the Northern Pacific Ocean, the Aleutian Islands—"Land of the Aleuts"—form an archipelago of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones belonging to The USA and Russia. Wild and ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives.

Aleuts and Tlingits, Inuit and Yupik, nation after nation of Alaska Natives already claimed a home in the region, largely untouched by European explorers. And then the Russians came.

At last count, over 2,000 cows and bulls roam Chirikof, one of many islands within a US wildlife refuge. Depending on whom you ask, the cattle are everything from unwelcome invasive megafauna to ...

The internment of Aleuts and Japanese Americans in WWII. Now, the discrimination sword is pointing to our gay and transgender friends and families. HB 105, SB 96, HB 27, ...

The Aleuts, who continue their seafaring lifestyle, are particularly vulnerable to radiation-contaminated fish and marine mammals, and radiation that might spread through the Bering Sea, ...