''The Tundra Times'' was a bi-weekly newspaper published in

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from 1962 to 1997.

Background

The first edition of "The Eskimo-Indian All-Alaska Newspaper" was published on 1 October 1962, and was written by and for

Alaska Natives Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a numbe ...

aiming to serve as the "medium to aid (Natives) in their struggle for just determination and settlement of their enormous problems...(and) to keep informed on matters of interest to all Natives of Alaska." The newspaper's first editor was Uyaġak

Howard Rock Howard Rock or Uyaġak (previously written as Weiyahok) (August 10, 1911 – April 20, 1976) was an Iñupiaq newspaper editor, activist, and artist. He was well known for his artwork and for founding the first ever Alaska Native newspaper. Ea ...

(1911–1976), an Inupiaq from

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. Howard convinced Fairbanks reporter Tom Snap to help him out with the first issue. The ''Tundra Times'' ceased publication in 1997, but its photographic archive was acquired by the Tuzzy Consortium Library and is available online.

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