Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC) will double scholarship funding for undergraduate, graduate and vocational Bering Straits Foundation (BSF) student recipients. Newly approved scholarship increases will be offered for the fall...
Village Life Stories There was a crew of Native men that always went boating from spring to the end of summer time. One morning, they were getting ready to go...
Village Life Stories As I looked all over, there were trees like giants in one corner and mountains in the other. “Where are we grandma? I don’t remember this place.”...
BSNC shareholder Ada Blackjack Johnson, nee Deletuk, was born in 1898 in Solomon, Alaska. She moved to Nome, Alaska where at the age of 16 she married Jack Blackjack and...
In the past decade, Inuit women revitalized the ancient art of traditional tattooing. The practice dates back at least 10,000 years and involves skin stitching or hand-poke/stickand-poke. Ethnographically, tattooing was...
This past spring, the Alaska Native Heritage Center celebrated its 20th Anniversary and honored BSNC shareholder Paul Tiulana, who was the original visionary for the Center. Opening its doors in...
Anyone who has visited Nome has seen the iconic White Alice antennas atop Anvil mountain. The White Alice Communication System (WACS) once connected with the remote Air Force sites, the...
Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC) is pleased to announce the hire of shareholder Lucille Sands for the newly-created position of Shareholder Development Director. In this new position, Sands will actively...
Village Life Stories Hunting walrus we need to go in the ocean. Walrus do not be on the ground they be on the ice. Walrus snore really loud. When we...
Village Life Stories The Iñupiat community of Wales, Alaska, traditionally known as Kiŋigin, lies along a long sandy beach at the base of the Wales Mountain and is located at...
