There’s a small village in Kamchatka with just 3,000 indigenous people who dance nonstop for 17 hours, make clothes from fish skins and are trying their best not to become extinct. About 100 people ...

Dr Viktoria Petrasheva, Vika to friends and family, was a song of a human being. A formidable culture bearer and elegant myth teller of the Itelmen, the first people of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the ...

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Kamchatka Peninsula, rugged and remote, is a vast blade of land stabbing southwestward through cold seas from the ...

David Koester studying driftwood in Alaska. David Koester became interested in Russian explorations and the minority peoples of the North Pacific region during a college reading course on the history ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-996807.mp3 Albany, NY – In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik of the University of ...

United Nations, New York – To stay alive, languages must be used. It helps if they are hip, too, says Amy Kalili, a native Hawaiian. Six decades ago, Hawaii’s native tongue was close to vanishing with ...