The Gwichya Gwich'in Council swore in Frederick Blake Jr. as Gwich'in Grand Chief in Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T., on Friday. The Gwich'in Tribal Council's board's announced the same day it planned to appeal ...

The Gwichya Gwich'in Council swore in Frederick (Sonny) Blake Jr. as Gwich'in Grand Chief in Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T., on Friday, despite the Gwich'in Tribal Council's board saying it will appeal a ...

Frederick Blake Jr.'s status as Gwich'in Tribal Council (GTC) grand chief is just set to begin after a legal battle and yet the situation is still fraught with uncertainty. In a Jan. 30 news release, ...

The Gwichya Gwich'in Council swore in Frederick (Sonny) Blake Jr. as Gwich'in Grand Chief in Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T., on Friday, despite the Gwich'in Tribal Council's board saying it will appeal a recent ...

The ceremony went ahead even as the tribal council’s board of directors said earlier on Friday it would appeal this month’s N.W.T. Supreme Court decision that declared Blake the winner of last ...

Poldine Carlo, an Athabascan elder from Nulato, was in her late 90s when she performed her Denali song in 2017 at a conference in Holy Cross on the Yukon River. In a raspy, aging voice ...

(Photo by Emily Mesner/National Park Service) Poldine Carlo, an Athabascan elder from Nulato, was in her late nineties when she performed her Denali song in 2017 at a conference in Holy Cross on ...

The Gwich'in language is part of the Athabascan language family. "So, I think it's quite accurate for Murkowski to say that the name is thousands of years old." A 2016 National Park Service artic ...

Yahoo, an Athabascan warrior ... Sam Alexander, an associate professor of Gwich'in at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, took part in the centennial ascent of Denali, representing his community ...