The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced on Tuesday that it is rejoining the Alaska Federation of Natives. The move comes almost exactly two years after the tribe ...

On Oct. 26, 1882, the village of Angoon, was home to nearly 420 Tlingit people in southeast Alaska, not far from the modern state capital of Juneau. But in an afternoon of shelling, looting and arson, ...

A member of the U.S. Navy sprinkles tobacco on top of a killer whale clan hat, which is considered to bring good fortune, during a Navy ceremony Saturday in Angoon, Alaska, to apologize for the 1882 ...

Alaska’s largest tribal government marked its return after two years to the largest statewide Alaska Native organization on Tuesday, with the tribal president declaring “unity is our greatest strength ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in ...

The U.S. Navy made an official apology this week for the bombardment and near destruction of a native Alaskan village 142 years ago. Speaking Saturday in Angoon, Alaska, located about 100 miles south ...

The stamp, designed by Tlingit and Athabascan artist Rico Lanáat’ Worl, features the raven as a trickster-spirit within a field of gold stars, holding the sun in his beak. Worl's forever stamp is ...

Expanding a cooperative agreement between Juneau’s municipal government and the Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska — with a focus on public safety and solid waste issues — is ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Army veteran Richard Bean Sr. took his wartime secret to the grave, dying a hero without anyone knowing about it for decades. Now Bean and four other long-deceased Alaska Natives ...

A member of the U.S. Navy sprinkles tobacco on top of a killer whale clan hat, which is considered to bring good fortune, during a Navy ceremony Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Angoon, Alaska, to ...