...are more likely to be Democrats. When Murkowski announced her improbable write-in bid in September, it was prominent Native leader Albert Kookesh on stage with her. Kookesh is chairman of Sealaska Corp., the Southeast regional Native corporation...

About two dozen relatives and friends stood with bowed heads under the sky-blue dome of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church on Tuesday evening in honor of five Alaskans lost Monday on Alaska Airlines Flight 261.

...joint project to determine if a gasline is feasible. Soon after the new year started one of Alaska's most prominent Native leaders was killed in the crash of Alaska Airlines flight 261. Morris Thompson had retired just one month earlier as...

...is going to play? At best, she's naive," McClain said. Alaska Natives tend to lean Democrat, and many prominent Native leaders have endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president. But the mother of Palin's husband, Todd, is a quarter...