Some Medicare assistance program eligibility requirements and premium costs depend on your income and resources. Special rules apply to American Indian and Alaska Native people’s income. Other rules ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Alaska Native populations had higher rates of Sjögren’s disease than the general population. RA and lupus were ...

A 12-foot sculpture called “The Gift” is the centerpiece of a memorial plaza an organizer says has been “a long time coming.” ...

In my role at the intersection of Native communities and philanthropy, I’ve had to navigate between two different value systems. My core values are Indigenous. I grew up in the Seattle urban Indian ...

The federal government is rewriting the rules for how it issues federal contracts. Some Alaska Native organizations — which depend on federal contracts to pay benefits to shareholders — say the ...

With Indigenous People’s Day (October 13) and Native American Heritage Month (November) approaching, Alaskan Dream Cruises—Alaska’s only Indigenous-owned cruise line—highlights what makes this ...

I was in Anchorage, Alaska, in August of 2015 when the Interior Secretary officially changed the name of Mount McKinley to Denali. The front page of the Alaska Dispatch News led with the headline: “It ...

The Native American Contractors Association says delays in approving 8(a) applications are causing uncertainty among its members and impacting its communities.

KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an ...

Above the Arctic Circle, where the temperature plumets below zero and darkness abounds for months, the art of Indigenous beading sustains the resilience of the Alaskan Gwich’in Athabaskan culture.