Alaska Public Radio has provided an audio remembrance of anthropologist and author Lydia T. Black, who passed away in her home in Kodiak, Alaska, on Monday, March 12, 2007. The broadcast details stories from family and colleagues, and her passionate commitment to teaching and Alaska Native culture and history. You can hear the radio broadcast […]

North Shore native whaling communities in Alaska are troubled over oil and gas exploration proposals in Beaufort Sea. “The U.S. Minerals Management Service has approved Shell’s plan to drill as many as a dozen exploration wells over the next two years in the Beaufort Sea” (1). Approval does not call for an environmental impact review, […]