This village recently welcomed hundreds of clergy from the Orthodox Church in America and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint.

Dr. Rick Knecht, working with local Native corporation Qanirtuuq, Inc., has helped accumulate the world’s largest collection ...

The Orthodox Christian tradition is strong in the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska. It recently welcomed clergy and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint.

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St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female Orthodox saint from North America. Orthodoxy — the ...

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire ...

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Alexie and her children were stranded until neighbors came by with a boat to her corner of Nunapitchuk, a Yup'ik village of roughly 550 people. The land Alexie's home sits on never used to flood.

Kwethluk is a Yup’ik Indigenous community of roughly 800 people in southwest Alaska, and one of 144 rural communities in Alaska threatened by permafrost thaw, erosion, and flooding.

Draftees from Russia’s far east Chukotka region where many indigenous people live assemble in October 2023 (Picture: Supplied) ‘We had the sad news that one died last week. ‘The Yupik are ...

A member of the Yupik Eskimo people who claimed asylum in the US after leaving her homeland in Arctic Russia spoke of an existential crisis. ‘There are three Eskimo villages in Russia with ...