• The tiny Alaskan city of Shishmaref is home to approximately 600 people , nearly all of them Alaska Natives. (colorlines.com)
  • At least two other Alaskan villages-Kivalina and Newtok-face the same dilemma. (colorlines.com)
  • Around 15,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled in a Native Alaskan village Saturday, threatening a nearby river and the local drinking water supply. (nationofchange.org)
  • It is also a subsistence fishing site for Native Alaskan communities and the wintering grounds for the Western Arctic caribou herd. (nationofchange.org)
  • Though some rural Alaskan villages are connected to regulated community water, many villages still rely on water hauled from unregulated sources. (cdc.gov)
  • The Native Village of Fort Yukon will use this FY 2023 TVSSA award to implement services for victims of crime that meet needs identified by the community and reflect tribal community values and traditions. (ojp.gov)
  • SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 - The U.S. Census Bureau today released 2020 Census population counts and sex-by-age statistics for 300 detailed race and ethnic groups, as well as 1,187 detailed American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) tribes and villages. (census.gov)
  • He says he supports reforms in government contracting programs for tribes, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. (indianz.com)
  • Today's release adds information on detailed groups within those major categories such as German, Lebanese, Jamaican, Chinese, Native Hawaiian and Mexican - and on AIAN tribes and villages like the Navajo Nation. (census.gov)
  • The site is a project of the Native Village of Afognak and funded by the Afognak Native Corporation and the Alaska Forum for the Humanities. (kmxt.org)
  • He was raised by his grandmother on the river in Stevens Village, a Koyukon Athabascan community nestled within the Yukon Flats. (hcn.org)
  • Koyukuk is a Koyukon Athabascan village located on the Yukon River near the mouth of the Koyukuk River, 30 miles west of Galena and 290 air miles west of Fairbanks. (alaskan-natives.com)
  • Our research shows that Indigenous peoples who established North America's first coastal shell ring villages some 4200 years ago were resilient and, through cooperation and collective action, were able to adapt to environmental instability and resource shortfalls. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The corporation, which grew out of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, was designed to generate profits for indigenous IƱupiat shareholders from Kaktovik, on the Arctic coast - the only village inside the refuge boundaries. (alaskapublic.org)
  • 5. According to the information received, the Kayan indigenous community of the Long Teran Kanan village in Tinjar, Miri, in the state of Sarawak, has been involved in a legal dispute over its land for the past 12 years, which resulted in the Miri High Court ruling in favour of the community on 31 March 2010. (jamesanaya.org)
  • However, there is a specific cultural, political and territorial identity with terms such as "Native" or "Indigenous" which should not be confused with the idea of humans being native to earth. (ifnotusthenwho.me)
  • Indigenous/Native peoples around the world have rich and diverse cultural heritages that encompass their relationships with land, community, spirituality, and governance. (ifnotusthenwho.me)
  • Many of the Indigenous Peoples along the North Shore whose villages are becoming smaller each year are Athabaskan, of which twelve related languages are spoken in Alaska. (hubpages.com)
  • In Alaska, though, the terminology we use for peoples of indigenous ancestry is Alaska Native. (cdc.gov)
  • Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according to a study by Carey Garland and Victor Thompson in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 2, 2022. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The Napaimute Traditional Council has set the date for the 2022 Native Village of Napaimute Annual Meeting and Council Elections for December 10, 2022. (napaimute.org)
  • 2022 Native Village of Napaimute Annual Meeting - Virtual or In-Person? (napaimute.org)
  • We are currently planning for the 2022 Native Village of Napaimute Annual Meeting sometime in early December. (napaimute.org)
  • NARF authored an amicus brief in the case on behalf of the Native Village of Kotzebue. (narf.org)
  • In 2004, the Native Village of Kotzebue received a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to undertake a project to live capture young of the year bearded seals and fit them with satellite tags that will record movement, diving, and hauling out behavior. (kotzebueira.org)
  • The Algaaciq Native Village (St. Mary's) is a federally recognized Alaska Native village in St. Mary's in southwest Alaska. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2014, the Tanana Chiefs Conference - the traditional tribal consortium of 42 Interior Alaska villages - launched a Hunting and Fishing Task Force, along with the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. (hcn.org)
  • The Tanana Chiefs Conference worked to coordinate salmon donations, and the Bristol Bay fishers shared 22,000 pounds of chinook and chum salmon with the Yukon River villages. (hcn.org)
  • The East Fork fire, which was started by lightning May 31, remained about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the Yup'ik village of St. Mary's, a statement from the Alaska Wildland Fire Information said. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
  • Warming temperatures and thawing permafrost are making it harder to get an accurate count for the 2020 census in some Alaska Native villages. (ijpr.org)
  • For the 2020 count, the Census Bureau is currently planning to count the community as two villages with separate population counts. (ijpr.org)
  • When Alaska is at its coldest, census workers are more likely to find village residents, some of whom migrate to hunt and fish for subsistence or work, in their home communities. (ijpr.org)
  • The Office of the Environment works to protect the Native Village of Eyak's traditional lands, manage subsistence resources for the tribe, and prevent or mitigate environmental damage. (eyak-nsn.gov)
  • The largest documented wildfire burning through tundra in southwest Alaska was within miles St. Mary's and another nearby Alaska Native village, Pitkas Point, prompting officials Friday to urge residents to prepare for possible evacuation. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
  • NativeAmericans.com serves as a multifaceted educational outlet for Native Americans and non-Natives alike. (nativeamericans.com)
  • Native Americans have prized turquoise since the time of the Aztecs, who mined it in New Mexico. (silvertribe.com)
  • The native peoples have lived in Alasaka for over 10,000 years. (hubpages.com)
  • Photographed in 1975, in the East India State of Bihar, this photograph depicted a native Bihari child, seated atop an Indian elephant in the streets of a regional village. (cdc.gov)
  • The spill occurred during a routine fuel delivery to the Northwest Arctic village of Shungnak. (nationofchange.org)
  • It's the only village within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain, which Congress opened to oil exploration in 2017. (alaskapublic.org)
  • Natasha Singh, tribal advocate, dances to the Stevens Village drummers with her youngest son, Issac, during an intertribal meeting. (hcn.org)
  • Mini-grants provide assistance to Tribal Members of the Native Village of Eyak to help with housing efficiency upgrades. (eyak-nsn.gov)
  • At the Ilanka Community Health Center, we are committed to providing personalized quality health care to our Cordova community - including members of the Native Village of Eyak, non-tribal community members, seasonal workers and visitors. (eyak-nsn.gov)
  • The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium collected formative data from almost 100 youth ages 15-24 through in-depth interviews and surveys to understand perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge of HIV, and STIs, and healthy relationships as well as associated risk, and protective behaviors, and factors to develop key messages. (healthynativeyouth.org)
  • NCEH, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and village supervisors surveyed 300 households in five villages, collecting household water samples and testing them for chemicals, bacteria, and viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • Turquoise Village changed ownership to the Dodson family in October of 2019. (turquoisevillage.com)
  • Recorded in 2019, when the researcher was working on the native language of the village, Kalamang. (lu.se)
  • People have lived in this village, located on Sarichef Island, for at least 400 years. (colorlines.com)
  • People in large numbers were headed Tuesday for the last rites of veteran socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav at his native village Saifai in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, the intermittent morning drizzle adding to the sombreness. (tehelka.com)
  • Yadav was hugely popular among the locals for his conenct with the masses," Manoj Mishra, a native of Etawah told media, reminiscing how 'Netaji' knew people of the region by their first names. (tehelka.com)
  • EPA will award $1.5 million to the Alaska Native village of Tuluksak, a community of approximately 360 people, which had its only source of potable drinking water destroyed in a fire earlier this year. (asdwa.org)
  • In Fairbanks, the delegation held an unusual meeting with leaders of the Gwich'in people, a different Native group that lives outside the coastal plain. (alaskapublic.org)
  • I am the founder of the social enterprise, Native, where we work together with Orang Asli (native people) communities to create wonderful experiences for travellers to enjoy. (buddyz.co)
  • In some developing countries, native healers remain the sole or main health providers for millions of people living in rural areas. (who.int)
  • It could also bring a wind switch that would help push the fire away from the villages, officials said in the statement. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
  • But in Alaska, where there is only one reservation , it's unclear exactly how accurate the bureau's counts are for Alaska Native villages, which have not been included in the bureau's undercount estimates. (ijpr.org)
  • We've seen landmasses just disappear overnight," says Romy Cadiente, a local official for Newtok, a village in southwest Alaska where erosion has been eating away an average of 70 feet a year, forcing many residents to flee for firmer ground . (ijpr.org)
  • A large fire burning in the tundra of southwest Alaska continued to move toward an Alaska Native village on Saturday, but fire managers said its pace had slowed. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
  • The analysis suggests that the inhabitants of the shell ring villages experienced environmental fluctuations, especially around the occupation of Ring III. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Other villages along the North Shore have already disappeared, their inhabitants having moved miles inland to resettle. (hubpages.com)
  • In 1966, after calling for peace internationally in relation to the Vietnam War, TNH was exiled from his native Vietnam and found refuge in France. (lu.se)
  • Popular Tollywood actor Nandamuri Balakrishna participated in Sankranti celebrations with his family members at Naravaripalle village in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district. (outlookindia.com)
  • The actor, who is also a member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, celebrated the festival with the family of his brother-in-law and former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in the latter's native village. (outlookindia.com)
  • Balayya, as the actor is popularly known, took everyone by surprise by going for a morning walk in the village. (outlookindia.com)
  • On Wednesday (4/28), EPA announced water infrastructure funding totaling $9 million for projects that will improve access to drinking water for the Alaska Native Villages of Tuluksak and Stebbins. (asdwa.org)
  • The village currently does not have a centralized drinking water or wastewater system. (asdwa.org)
  • A short ferry ride from Port McNeill on Vancouver Island, BC brings the visitor to the First Nations native village of Alert Bay on Cormorant Island. (hickerphoto.com)
  • A charter flight unloads Bristol Bay salmon in Venetie, one of the 42 Interior villages that received fish donations. (hcn.org)
  • In addition, because of the remoteness of these regions, there's also a lack of physical infrastructure, like roads, which would link villages to hospitals. (cdc.gov)
  • We also collected information from the medical records from village clinics and hospitals. (who.int)
  • Joe Miller , the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Alaska, says Alaska Native corporations aren't helping their shareholders in rural villages. (indianz.com)
  • But in October, after decades of planning and fundraising, about a third of Newtok's residents packed their belongings into boats and relocated to 21 new homes on higher ground across the river in Mertarvik , Alaska - a replacement village about 9 miles southeast of Newtok. (ijpr.org)
  • There have been voluntary evacuations by residents, as well as others living in the nearby communities of Mountain Village and Pilot Station. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
  • All were native residents of Banlu village aged between 21 and 48 years. (who.int)
  • But as temperatures in Alaska climb faster than in any other state and twice as fast as the global average , counting in some communities has become more complicated - adding yet another layer to long-standing challenges, such as language barriers and distrust of the U.S. government, that have hindered the Census Bureau's ability to produce complete population counts of Alaska Native villages. (ijpr.org)
  • The bureau's plans have raised concerns about how they could affect population-based federal funding that villages like Newtok count on for housing and infrastructure. (ijpr.org)
  • A measles epidemic and food shortages during 1900 tragically reduced the Native population by one-third. (alaskan-natives.com)
  • As of 2012, the village population was 95. (alaskan-natives.com)
  • Banlu village, located in the north of Lianyungang prefecture with a population of 1466 in 367 households, has a long history of slaughtering cattle. (who.int)
  • The entire population older than 14 years was examined according to the World Health Organization criteria, totaling 152 individuals from three villages. (bvsalud.org)
  • Before the spring thaw, census workers have also been able to journey across miles of frozen ground and ice roads on snow machines (known in the Lower 48 as snowmobiles) or sometimes in dog sleds to reach villages usually accessible only by bush plane or boat in the warmer months. (ijpr.org)
  • During winter, census workers are able to journey across miles of frozen ground and ice roads to reach villages usually accessible only by plane or boat in the warmer months. (ijpr.org)
  • The Special Rapporteur understands that, in its decision, the Court affirmed the village's "native customary rights over their native customary lands" and held that the provisional leases issued within the area by the Sarawak Government to the Land Custody Development Authority and IOI Pelita Plantation Sdn. (jamesanaya.org)
  • Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according to a new study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Shell ring villages were coastal communities built around fishing, as indicated by their sitting next to shellfish estuaries, and their large mounds of mollusk shells which remain to this day. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The authors add: "The emergence of village life and adaptation to coastal environments are significant transitions in human history that have occurred at various times and places across the globe. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Rubini's interest in Kaktovik underscores how the coastal plain's opening has put the village in a new spotlight. (alaskapublic.org)
  • Since those childhood days, the combination of climate change and federal and state mismanagement have caused a rapid decline in the Yukon's wild salmon, threatening the sovereignty, culture and economic life of the villages along the river's banks. (hcn.org)
  • For our group, it did raise our awareness of village life. (healthynativeyouth.org)
  • Since about 1950, life expectancy for Alaska Natives has actually increased by more than 20 years to about 69, and we've done a good job in decreasing the number of deaths due to infections. (cdc.gov)
  • Natives really face shorter life expectancy, higher infant mortality rates, and higher rates of injury and suicide. (cdc.gov)
  • And we hope by focusing on some of these health problems, we can improve life for Alaska Natives. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1973, the Village Corporation passed a resolution to relocate because of beach erosion and flooding, but the community decided to focus instead on protecting the land. (colorlines.com)
  • Aqua tabs, Jerry cans and soaps were distributed in the village, health and hygiene sessions were conducted in the village. (who.int)
  • A review of occupational safety and health research for American Indians and Alaska Natives. (cdc.gov)
  • Introduction: To better understand what is known about issues affecting American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) workers, authors conducted a literature review of publications specific to AI/AN and occupational safety and health. (cdc.gov)
  • It's really amazing today, in this day and age, that about one-third of Alaska Natives have no in-home water or sewage service and of course, this really impacts human health in these regions in a big way. (cdc.gov)
  • Natives facing greater health challenges. (cdc.gov)
  • each of the 9113 villages has one or two traditional health practitioners. (who.int)
  • The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has awarded a grant to the Alaska Native Health Board (ANHB) to support surveys of the dietary habits of Alaskans who regularly eat traditional foods. (cdc.gov)
  • Algaaciq is part of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region, and their ANCSA Alaska Native Regional Corporation is the Calista Corporation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because filing a formal petition for adoption is a very complicated process that requires the assistance of a lawyer and the vast majority of Alaska Native families (especially those in rural Alaska) lack access to or resources for an attorney, this new requirement will be an insurmountable hurdle for most families and will prevent them from asserting their rights under ICWA. (narf.org)
  • With a powerhouse voice and lauded acting chops, it's no wonder Noon made it from Village Theatre's KIDSTAGE program to Broadway. (issaquahreporter.com)
  • The Safe in the Village (SITV) program is designed to start conversations about healthy relationships, and safe behaviors with Alaska Native youth. (healthynativeyouth.org)
  • After confirming the information by telephone, several epidemiologists and laboratory staff from the CDC were sent to the village for further investigation the same day. (who.int)
  • The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that, in order to be considered as an adoptive placement option for children in the custody of the state, family members, and other Native families must file formal adoption cases. (narf.org)
  • So whether you're looking for detail-packed inlay pieces such as Native American village and animal designs, or traditional work such as feather pieces and needlepoint jewelry, we have it all. (silvertribe.com)
  • The inlay is carefully set into EIGHT lovely links that features magnificent, detailed work that forms a marvelous Native American Village Design. (silvertribe.com)
  • Model your favorite Native American Village or use your imagination to create your own. (woodlandscenics.com)
  • Our main food source is now a delicacy," said Brooke Woods, a traditional fisher (Yookkan Hoont'aanh from Rampart Village) and a University of Alaska Fairbanks Fisheries student. (hcn.org)
  • The late Gregory Hofmann founded Turquoise Village in 1978 as an expression of his love for Zuni culture, jewelry and traditional Native American art. (turquoisevillage.com)
  • The isolated village, on the oil-rich North Slope, already straddles the divide between traditional and modern. (alaskapublic.org)
  • But in the villages, you look and it's just like 40 years ago when (the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act) just passed, and it's like, what's up with that? (indianz.com)
  • Shell rings formed some of the earliest human village settlements along the U.S. South Atlantic coast but were abandoned at the end of the Late Archaic around 4,000 years ago. (sciencedaily.com)
  • I want to find new avenues to share the experiences that Native has created with our Orang Asli partners. (buddyz.co)
  • Fresh from the national tour of "Wicked," the 26-year-old Newcastle native will return to the Eastside to star as Annie Oakley in Village Theatre's "Annie Get Your Gun," premiering Nov. 9. (issaquahreporter.com)
  • By the year 2025, the year that at least two outer space projects plan to be up and running on Mars , The US Army Corps of Engineers forecasts that the native village of Kivalina will be submerged. (hubpages.com)
  • The village captured over 80 seals every year for food, but in 2015, the number was fewer than 10. (hubpages.com)
  • After notification of a suspected case of anthrax following the slaughtering of a sick cow in Banlu village, an area that has not had any anthrax cases for decades, we aimed to confirm the outbreak, determine the transmission mechanism and implement control measures. (who.int)
  • On 2 August 2012, the Lianyungang Centre for Disease Control (CDC) was notified from a hospital doctor of a case of anthrax with three lesions on both of his hands (two lesions on his left little finger and another one on the back of his right hand) after slaughtering a sick cow in Banlu village. (who.int)
  • This case worked at the largest of the three slaughter houses in the village. (who.int)
  • While sharp divisions still exist over oil drilling in the village, a string of recent political and business decisions have increasingly set Kaktovik on a course aligned with development. (alaskapublic.org)
  • nity/village development committee. (who.int)
  • Native American news, information and entertainment. (indianz.com)