A professor-turned-historian, a mother-and-son duo, a former Alaska Native games athlete and coach, and the handler of a locally famous therapy dog were among more than a dozen Indigenous authors at ...
Alaska’s Natives played significant roles in World War II, in the United States military and in protecting Alaska during and after attacks by Japanese forces. Additionally, residents of the Aleutian ...
Yup'ik is the most commonly spoken Native language in Alaska, but Nikki Corbett couldn't find any Yup'ik books to teach her kids the language. She wanted to fix that. Corbett grew up in the majority ...
Audri Ia holds up the books she received at a book drop on May 15, 2025. Thousands of new books, many by Indigenous writers, are landing in the hands of kids across Southeast Alaska this month. A ...
Holly Miowak Guise chose to title her book “Alaska Native Resilience,” because, she said, it perfectly captured the story she wanted to tell about the ways Alaska Natives experienced World War II, how ...
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33 Books Set in + About Alaska

Alaska is a wilderness many people dream of visiting. But if you can’t plan a trip to Alaska any time soon, these books about Alaska will take you there. Our list has everything from fiction about ...
The mother and small business owner had searched online and in stores near her home in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, but she could not find any books to teach her young children the Yup’ik language.
Time for the annual look back at the year in writing, and for me as a reviewer, 2023 goes down as the year of the Alaska Native woman novelist, three of whom gave us books worthy of note. Lily ...
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has published a landmark book on the era of Indigenous slavery in Alaska that endured more than two decades after passage of the 13th Amendment to the federal ...
The mother and small business owner had searched online and in stores near her home in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, but she could not find any books to teach her young children the Yup’ik language.