Category: Alaska Native history and culture

Eklutna’s Orthodox church may be the oldest building in the Anchorage area

Old St. Nicholas church in Eklutna as it looked in the 1980s Eklutna, 25 miles northeast of Anchorage on the east shore of Upper Cook Inlet’s Knik Arm, is a small Dena’ina Athabascan community....

Kenai’s Orthodox Church serves local parish for over 120 years

The Church of the Holy Assumption is an Orthodox church in Kenai. In Alison Hoagland’s book, Buildings of Alaska, she describes it as a dramatic and well-proportioned building. Built in 1895, it is one...

Modern birch-bark canoe at Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center evokes traditional Athabascan culture

  This traditional Athabascan birch-bark canoe is on display at the Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center in Fairbanks. It was constructed in 2013 by a Folk School Fairbanks class. The boreal forest (also...

St. Timothy's Church in 2012

Episcopal missionaries established Tanacross 100 years ago

2012 marked the 100th anniversary of St. Timothy’s Church in Tanacross. The church was one of a string of missions the Episcopal Church established along the Tanana River in the early 1900s to serve...

St. Timothy’s Church in Tanacross celebrates 100th anniversary

  Current church, dedicated in 1981 I spent the day at Tanacross yesterday. The people of Tanacrosss, along with friends from all over Interior Alaska, were celebrating the 100th anniversary of St. Timothy’s Episcopal...

Dot Lake Community Chapel

Dot Lake community grew from Alaska Highway construction camp

Dot Lake, located about half way between Tok and Delta Junction on the Alaska Highway, is a picturesque little town on the east shore of Dot Lake. The community did not really exist until...

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church a reminder of Nenana’s early history

  Traveling through the small town of Nenana, about 60 miles south of Fairbanks, you might get the impression that it is a relatively new community—the fortuitous juncture of the Alaska Railroad, Parks Highway...

Salcha Native Cemetery–A people and place worth remembering

  Salcha Native Cemetery A couple of miles northwest of the Salcha River bridge on the Richardson Highway is a small cemetery perched on the bluff overlooking Munson’s Slough and the Tanana River.  The...