Federal officials changed the names of two natural features in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Thursday, replacing arbitrary and offensive World War II-era place names with ones that honor the native ...

A little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until this week.

Its new name is Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, meaning either “gizzard creek” or “creek or river belonging to gizzard island” in Unangam ...

The US Board on Geographic Names has approved the renaming of ‘Nazi Creek’ and a nearby hill on Little Kiska Island, with ...

The bill also changes the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council (ANLPAC) to the “Council for Alaska Native Languages” and expands the five-member council by two members.

The call to action from the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council urges systemic reforms to the state’s support and integration of Native languages.

Alaska Native language expansion passes House. Bill by Juneau lawmaker adds more officially recognized dialects, expands preservation council’s role ...

A decade has passed since the last legislation to support Alaska Native languages became law. In 2014, the state updated a 1998 law that recognized Alaska Native languages as official state languages.

Lawmakers added four Alaska Native languages to the state’s official language tally ... In 2018, Gov. Bill Walker signed A.O. 300, which recognizes a linguistic emergency for Alaska Native ...

Yet when they learn to read in their Alaska Native language — many of which are endangered — those objectives are often lacking, making the learning process more difficult, some educators say.

St. Olga is the third with Alaska Native heritage, emblematic of how the faith has grafted in with some Indigenous cultures. Most of the state’s Orthodox priests, serving about 80 parishes, are ...

Yup'ik is the most commonly spoken Native language in Alaska, but Nikki Corbett couldn't find any Yup'ik books to teach her kids the language. She wanted to fix that.