While Newtok is the first Alaska village to relocate ... and there is state money available for a new school to replace the erosion-threatened building. There is no single source of money to ...
Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months ...
a regional operations manager for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. Plans for the future include “adding some erosion control along the damaged area” and some ...
The attack was one of a series of conflicts between the American military and Alaska Natives in the years after the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867. The U.S. Navy issued an apology ...