U.S. News Insider Tip: Be sure to allow plenty of time for visiting each of the village sites surrounding the center's Lake Tiulana, and stop to talk with the Alaska Native youth at each.

However, the biggest single issue is the lack of dog teams and mushers who have the means and fortitude to tackle a long sled race that traverses some of the toughest terrain in Alaska.

Allen Moore, of Two Rivers, climbs toward Eagle Summit with his team. Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race frontrunners passed checkpoints along the Steese Highway on February 10, 2019. The Yukon ...

The race follows a large network of Native trade and travel routes which travelers used when gold was discovered ... Experience through the origins of the Iditarod National Historic Trail and the ...

Get your thrills via heli-hiking, ATV tours, glacier tours, float planes or dog sledding excursions. Foodies can opt for a mountain-top barbecue ... Alaska is also replete with souvenirs to remember ...

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Native Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo and kayak. Credit: Fish and Wildlife Service/E.P. Haddon. Join us in celebrating National Native American Heritage Month, as we recognize Native Americans’ respect ...

The race follows a large network of Native trade and travel routes which travelers used when gold was discovered ... Experience through the origins of the Iditarod National Historic Trail and the ...

Native Alaskan or Native Hawaiian ancestral remains, funerary objects (something placed with individual human remains usually at the time of burial), sacred objects and objects of cultural ...

Abby and Michael Traver started their dog sledding tour company "Call of the Wyld" in 2019. "We're really about education and preserving the legacy of dog mushing," Michael told Local News 8.