Medicine Buffalo

UB biologist returns ‘Young Lady in Cave’ remains to Alaskan tribe

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Charlotte Lindqvist is used to handling ancient DNA. An evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo, she’s extracted genetic information from the tooth of a Paleolithic-era ...
Hartford Courant

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...
Hyperallergic

The Alaska Native Heritage Center Is a Home of Ancestral Knowledge

The Alaska Native Heritage Center entrance (photo by Jesse Darling, all images courtesy the Alaska Native Heritage Center, unless otherwise noted) America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of ...
National Catholic Reporter

Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...