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The cold days of this month have kept many indoors for the most part and may induce cabin fever a bit early, as we sometimes refer to agitation over trivial things, especially to men who are outdoors...

As we begin the new year, this first month appears to be the coldest in recent years, what with the global warming that we hear about continually these days. I recall colder months in my boyhood days....

The American Indian and Alaskan Native of days long past did not glance at the calendar to see what day it is, nor did he flip the calendar to the next month… He counted suns, such as seven suns. An...

A few years back in time, I spent a few days camping near Baird Inlet, repairing a cabin where my family spends time every spring. After an evening meal, I went outside to the coolness of the autumn...

Aside from the dogs barking in concert throughout the village, the community is quiet as the day after the world was born, and heights where the air was so clear the miles vanished and faraway Kilbuk...

There is a change upon the land, a sense of something different. There is a new silence, strangeness. And I wholeheartedly welcome it. And as I watch my family with curious eyes, they all sense the...

Preserving subsistence rights is the foremost requisite for survival in rural Alaska. In all corners of this last frontier, the men are taught from a very early age. I grew up learning from my father...

As we begin the second week of November, my thoughts recall the many trappers of the region...many of whom have passed on. November 10 was the day that they can legally start trapping mink and land...

We learn from information that is practically at our fingertips nowadays...of the origins of people everywhere in this universe. We must not make the same mistake in judging others, as the early...

As the largest statewide forum of Alaska’s indigenous Natives - the Alaska Federation of Natives - convened in Alaska’s Metropola, the theme was echoed by virtually every speaker throughout the...

In the vast road-less, remote regions of Alaska, where many of us have resided for generations...our livelihood is most affected by the ever increasing cost of living and survival. Having been a...

In the 1892 landmark case called “Illinois Central”, the U.S. Supreme Court said that the government holds wildlife and navigable waterways in trust for the people so that they may fish, have a...

As the days approach mid-July, there are less and less swallows flying around the village, as some have already started flying south. As I passed the bluffs today, seventeen miles below Nunap on the...