Tara Sweeney, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior, visited Nome on Monday for an event called “Reclaiming Our Native Communities”: a roundtable ...

Tribes from around the region met at Kawerak’s first Tribal Justice Summit in Nome to talk about what tribal justice could look like for them. Tribal Justice Summit renews focus on tribal courts ...

Since late 2021, the regional Alaska Native nonprofit tribal consortium Kawerak has been using federal grant money to support students of all ages in the Bering Strait region.

Melanie Bahnke, president of Kawerak Inc., a regional nonprofit corporation in the Bering Straits Region, and Ivy Bahnke, 6, watch a slideshow during the first day of AFN Convention at the Dena ...

Membership on the Alaska Board of Fisheries would be restructured to guarantee representation for the state’s different fishing sectors, under a bill pending in the Legislature.

Kawerak Inc., a regional non-profit corporation that provides social services to Alaska Native Villages along Alaska’s west coast, and the Bering Sea Elders Group in June urged Obama to give ...

Melanie Bahnke, president of the Kawerak tribal government in Nome, said that residents of villages outside the Western Alaska hub of Nome will need to pay over $1,000 for two flights to travel to ...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks, Sealaska, Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Yukon Delta Fisheries Development Association, Kawerak, Inc., and the Caleb Scholars ...

Here is a selection of organizations that help polar bears or fight climate change. One nonprofit, Kawerak, Inc., provides goods and services to the people of Wales, Alaska. The Oregonian ...

Julie is an anthropologist and the Social Science Program Director at Kawerak Incorporated in Nome, Alaska. Some of her interests include the circumpolar north, research ethics, applied anthropology ...

Lauren Divine first heard that the birds were dying on October 13, 2016, when one of her colleagues stumbled across the corpse of a tufted puffin while walking along a beach on Alaska’s St. Paul ...