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 ...

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 ...

Following the president's order, the Gulf of Mexico will henceforth be referred to as the Gulf of America, and North America's tallest mountain will revert to Mount McKinley. As stated in the ...

President William McKinley may never have set foot in Alaska but one of President Donald Trump’s first executive actions upon reentering the White House was to reestablish its most famous mountain — ...

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama changed the name of Mount McKinley in Alaska to Denali, a local Native American name meaning "the High One" in Athabascan. The naming of the nation's tallest ...

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama changed the name of Mount McKinley in Alaska to Denali, a local Native American name meaning "the High One" in Athabascan. The naming of the nation's tallest peak ...