Marie Smith Jones, the last full-blooded Eyak and fluent speaker of her native Alaskan language, died in her sleep Monday at her home in Anchorage, her family said. She was 89. Michael Krauss, a ...

ANCHORAGE, AlaskaANCHORAGE, Alaska — It’s an unlikely collaboration: A 21-year-old aspiring artist in Europe is working with a 75-year-old Fairbanks linguist to carry on a dying native Alaskan ...

A chain-smoker, activist, and mother of nine children, Marie Smith-Jones was one of a kind. The last surviving full-blooded Alaskan Eyak, and sole native speaker of the Eyak language, she was renowned ...

A recent Wall Street Journal article described the efforts of a twenty-one-year-old Frenchman named Guillaume Ledey to revive the native-Alaskan language of Eyak. The last full-blooded Eyak and native ...

Four people were rescued from the F/V Eyak early Monday morning after the boat went aground near Calligan Island, just north of the Goddard hot springs. The Coast Guard received a callfrom a crew ...

CORDOVA, Alaska -- With the gift, sometimes also comes the burden. Guillaume Leduey remembers the first time the media caught up with him. He also remembers the email from someone asking why everyone ...

Chief Marie Smith Jones, the last fluent speaker of the Eyak language of the Alaskan Indians, died Monday at her home in Anchorage. She was 89. Chief Jones worked diligently to preserve her native ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - An Alaska Native village corporation will pay the federal government $2.5 million and give up claims to payments from a contract signed by subsidiaries to settle a fraud case.

The last traditional speaker of the Eyak language died yesterday, making the language extinct. Eyak Chief Marie Smith Jones was 89 years old. She was the last person to have learned the language the ...