According to the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Alaska Native languages were the second-most common language for Alaskans 65 and older and for youth ages 5-17.

Printmaker Gidinatiy Hartman sits at a market table with their prints for sale on Oct. 19, 2024. Hartman, who grew up in Alaska and now lives in St. Paul, is Deg Xitʼan, an Indigenous Athabaskan ...

A group of 14 Indigenous educators in Alaska is proposing new standards for how Alaska Native languages — some of which are on the verge of dying out — are taught in the state. In January, the Alaska ...

FAIRBANKS — Village elders have worked with researchers for years to document the slate of native languages found across the state. Many of those languages, including Lower Tanana, are extremely ...

Sabine Siekmann was only 17 when she boarded her first plane in 1988, leaving Rotenburg, Germany, for Pocatello as a Rotary exchange student. She had no idea that years later she’d ride a snowmobile ...

Native Alaskan language scholars say the name Denali had been used by Indigenous people for thousands of years for the tallest mountain in North America, found in Alaska. The mountain’s name ...

Then-President Obama used his executive power to rename the mountain Denali, which is derived from a Native Alaskan language. In his inaugural address, Trump described former President McKinley as a ...