Alaska Native students are more likely to drop out of school and have the lowest attendance rates above all subgroups except homeless students in Alaska, according to new data.

They do not represent political or tribal units nor are they the units Native people have traditionally used to define themselves. Alaska Native Language map. Source: Alaska Geographic Alliance.

For example, a document labeled as being Iñupiaq, an indigenous language spoken in Northwestern Alaska and Canada, was actually written in Inuktitut, which follows a completely different alphabet ...