circa 1950: A typical scene of the Aleutian Islands with a volcanic cone in the background.J. Malcolm Greany/Three Lions/Getty Images Alaska was controversially purchased by the US from Russia in 1867 ...

Photographer Bill Hess (right) speaks with Nelson Angapak, a Yup'ik Elder and Vietnam War veteran, on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 at an exhibition of Hess's work at the Alaska Federation of Natives ...

circa 1950: A typical scene of the Aleutian Islands with a volcanic cone in the backgroundJ. Malcolm Greany/Three Lions/Getty Images Alaska was controversially purchased by the US from Russia in 1867.

This story originally appeared on KNBA and is republished here with permission. The Alaska Federation of Natives convention, which opened Thursday in Anchorage, always takes time out to honor veterans ...

Alaska was controversially purchased by the US from Russia in 1867. Critics called the transaction "Seward's Folly" after US Secretary of State William Seward. Alaska was officially made the 49th ...