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My Cache Scholars Connect at 2025 Banquet
“You belong here. Your path matters. It’s okay if your path changes. Indigenous presence is sovereignty. Keep showing up. Keep learning. Remember laughter is medicine.” These were the closing remarks provided by Cheryl Ongtowasruk during this year’s keynote address at the MyCache [...]
Regional Opioid Survey Released to Improve Wellness
The Kawerak Wellness Program has started a new initiative to confront the regional impact of opioid use—and you can help by completing an online survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/BSORI. This important survey asks how opioid use affects our lives, families, and communities. Your insights [...]
A Successful Summer 2025 with SYP
Each spring Kawerak begins to promote the Summer Youth Work Program (SYP), looking for youth eager to gain paid work experience. The program is open to tribally enrolled youth ages 14-24 in the Bering Strait Region, and jobs vary depending on the [...]
Quarter 2 2025: Employees of the Quarter and Team of the Quarter
Kawerak is please to announce the 2025 Quarter 2 awardees for Employee of the Quarter and Team of the Quarter. We are very fortunate to have such excellent and hard working staff and we appreciate all that they do! See their nominations [...]
Student Highlight: Brice Hardy
In March of 2025 Brice Hardy stood tall to receive his Class A Commercial Driving License from the Alaska Driving Academy. Since he was a middle school student, Brice had his eyes on obtaining his CDL. It took time, research and working [...]
Genocide Rhetoric Must Be Rejected By All
Genocide Rhetoric Must Be Rejected By All – Kawerak Inc.’s Response to Ann Coulter's Statement: "We Didn't Kill Enough Indians" As a Native organization rooted in the enduring strength, dignity, and sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples, we are appalled and saddened that public [...]
Arctic Watch Marine Traffic Workshop Report
Check out the findings from the Arctic Watch Marine Traffic Workshop 2024. Tribal delegates from across the Bering Strait region attended the workshop in Juneau to shape a marine vessel traffic management system for the Bering Strait waterway. Key overarching themes emerged [...]
RFP: Shishmaref Shoreline Tar Barrel Removal Project
Kawerak, Inc.’s Contaminated Sites Program seeks a contractor to test the soil on site after the barrels have been removed and to compose documentation and reports for the brownfield site known as the “Shishmaref Shoreline Tar Barrel Site’. The barrels were buried [...]
Trainee Celebrates First Teacher Appreciation Week as Teacher
As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, we want to take a moment to recognize Sierra Aningayou, a recent trainee who worked hard and challenged herself to get her teacher title in the Early Head Start class room with Kawerak’s Head Start. Sierra’s [...]
Heavy Equipment Course Prepares Eight New Trainees
This past week, April 7-11, 8 regional trainees completed Heavy Equipment Operation training in Nome. The training was hosted by Kawerak's Workforce Development Program (formerly known as Employment and Training) in partnership with Northern Industrial Training (NIT), Northwestern Alaska Career and Technical [...]
Tribal Members from Kawerak region share powerful testimony at North Pacific Fishery Management Council
Photo: Testifiers' subsistence activities Salmon are a vital part of the food security, culture, and wellbeing in the Kawerak region. Salmon stocks continue to decline, and subsistence harvests of Chum continue to be restricted, yet the commercial offshore pollock trawl is not [...]
