DAN O’HEARN’S house in Atka, Alaska, faces east, out over the Bering Sea, the rising sun. “It’s a pleasant view,” says O’Hearn, who teaches middle school in Atka. “It’s a pleasant area. So quiet.” If ...

The last native speaker of the Aleut language in Russia, Gennady Yakovlev, has died at the age of 86 in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka region. The chairwoman of the regional council of the Aleut ...

City and tribal-government employees on Alaska's St. Paul Island get Oct. 28 off each year for a holiday you might not have heard of: St. Paul Aleut Independence Day. It marks the day in 1983 when ...

He might have taken my question as a judgment of cultural denial, as negatively implying that there was little left of Aleut culture and, therefore, of Aleut political status, because the language was ...

During the 5,000 years Aleuts lived on Sanak Island off the Alaska Peninsula — perhaps one of the longest occupied locales in the Far North — they scarfed down just about everything that squirmed, ...

The speech that follows was presented by Thomas Mack, president of the Aleut Corporation at the Arctic Imperative Summit in June at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska. In the coming weeks, ...

Growing up on a small island in Prince William Sound in Alaska, Maggie Fennell used to travel by baidarka, the cedar-framed kayaks covered with sealskin that her grandfather made. She also went ...

During the 5,000 years Aleuts lived on Sanak Island off the Alaska Peninsula — perhaps one of the longest occupied locales in the Far North — they scarfed down just about everything that squirmed, ...