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Ever since she was a young girl, Alice New Holy has created porcupine quill work, a traditional Lakota art form.

Onagazi (Stronghold table) -- On this windswept mesa in the Badlands of South Dakota is the site where Red Cloud and his followers conducted the ghost dance in 1890 in hopes it would restore the lands and the buffalo to the Indians. The Ghost Dance…

Superhighways of Alaska's interior, the Yukon River is plied by speedboats during the June race to Fairbanks. More than linking remote villages, 'rivers are vital to our well-being,' says an Athapaskan teacher. 'If I can't get to the river once a…

The family of each villager who is to be mourned in the Stickdance dresses a selected person in clothes symbolizing the deceased. He or she represents the dead person, visiting friends to say the good-byes so rarely exchanges in this land of quick…

City ways are required study for Joe Wright and Stephanie Alexander, whose backcountry school district sends students to Fairbanks each year to learn skills such as opening a bank account and applying for a job.

Grief washes over family and friends during the funeral of national Guardsman Justin Patsy. He drowned in the Yukon trying to catch a falling boat motor.

'I dig just enough gold to pay my bills,' says Bill Carlo as his granddaughter picks through a panfull worth $10,000 from his mine near Rampart.. 'Anytime I run short of cash, I go dig up a little.'

bath night turns the Pitka house into a madhouse - and tests the ability of Joann Pitka to juggle her three sons in and out of the tub.

Fox tracks in the snow are the only signs of activity when temperatures fall to 35 below on a February night in Ruby, and Athapaskan village of 200 people.

One of the few women in her village able to perform the ancient Athapaskan songs, Karen Esmailka hopes to pass them on to her daughter, Whitney. In remote villages like hers, such traditions are in danger of being swept away for ever by a flood of…