Honoring a Legacy of Strength, Subsistence, and Sovereignty Honoring a Matriarch of the Ahtna People On Katie John Day, we remember a woman whose strength reverberated from the banks of the Copper River to the highest courts in the land. …

A Champion for Civil Rights in Alaska Elizabeth Peratrovich, a Tlingit woman from Petersburg, Alaska, played a major role in the fight for Native civil rights. Born in 1911, she and her husband, Roy Peratrovich, faced open discrimination, from segregated …