Patrick Saltonstall News Today

The Kodiak Area Marine Science Symposium wrapped up last week. It featured presentations and sessions that looked both into the past and into a future that will be much different.

The Alutiiq Museum has published a new history of the Kodiak Alutiiq/Sugpiaq people. “Imaken Ima’ut — From the Past to the Future,” traces the history of Kodiak’s Native people over

Two new Boston University classes offer a wider, deeper look at the Arctic, including the diverse communities who call the polar region home.

BU student found the oldest woven textile ever recorded on Kodiak Island, Alaska, at an ancient Alutiiq site, while on an archaeological dig.

Woven artifacts far older than previous examples show just how old the rich weaving traditions of the Alutiiq culture of Alaska are.

Archaeologists with the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository have uncovered fragments of woven grass artifacts at Karluk Lake estimated to be 3,000 years old.

When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given this uninhabited island to feral cattle?

Spring break for students in the Kodiak Island Borough School District is next week. To keep kids busy, the Alutiiq Museum is hosting four days of cultural activities beginning March

An Alutiiq Museum field team will launch a study of Alaska Native settlements on Sitkinak Island beginning today, thanks to a Alaska National Park Service grant, according to a museum news release. The Tribal Heritage Grant, worth $49,301, was provided by Koniag Inc. and will support “a comprehensive archeological survey of Sitkinak’s state lands,” with a focus on the island’s coast to find and document ancestral villages. Patrick Saltonstall, the museum’s curator of ar...