Merhige completed her Cook Strait crossing last month. (Chris Merhige for Swim Across America via CNN Newsource) By CNN.com Wire Service UPDATED: April 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM PDT ...

Until the 2024 fiscal year, inflation-adjusted dollars for the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act’s housing grant program remained below levels from fiscal year 2000.

Little Diomede, which was sold by the Russians to America along with the rest of Alaska in 1867, has been the American sentinel on the Bering Strait ever since the cold war.

Native American news roundup, March 2-8, 2025 The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building is seen in Washington, on March 22, 2013. IRS staff cuts leave tribes struggling for answers ...

Black and white painting of a group of Native Americans (Chualpay Indians) sitting around two people in the middle playing a game with sticks called Al-Kol-Lock” at Fort Colvile. Native American DNA ...

Other communities include Wales, population 160, at the edge of the American side of the strait; Gambell, also on St. Lawrence Island, with 600 residents; and Diomede, a tiny island community in ...

But Sullivan said that the nearest port that could dock a Navy destroyer or icebreaker is in Anchorage or Dutch Harbor, more than 800 miles from the Bering Strait.

More recently James A. Oliver has examined the Beringia phenomenon in his witty and ironic prose, The Bering Strait Crossing: A 21 Century Frontier between East and West (2006).

Though it was long assumed that Native Americans descended from Siberians who crossed over the Bering Strait’s ephemeral land bridge, more recent genetic, geological, and archeological evidence ...