Alaska Native Arts & Culture

Oct 02 2017
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Brandon Moonin teaches students Alutiiq in village of Tatitlek. (Photo courtesy of Brandon Moonin)

Chugach Alutiiq teachers preserve language in villages

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Education, Southcentral, Southwest

Two remote learning students just graduated from a Kodiak College Alutiiq language program. They’re striving to keep the language alive in Port Graham and Tatitlek, two villages where Alutiiq, or Sugpiaq, people speak the regional dialect of Chugach Alutii

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Sep 28 2017
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Pua Maunu uses watercolors and pen and ink to paint at Artists of All Nations, a communal art space at the JACC on Sunday, Sep. 24, 2017. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)

Artists of All Nations fosters communal creative space

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Community, Juneau, KRNN Tune IN, KXLL Tune In

More than 30 artists, children and crafters got together this past weekend for an open studio gathering at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. The Artists of All Nations events are a result of the JAHC’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, which responded to Alaska Native artists’ desire to create art as a collective experience.

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Sep 26 2017
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Yup’ik and Gwich’in political activist Desa Jacobsson died at age 69 in Anchorage after a lifetime of raising awareness for Native issues, including sexual violence against Native women. (Photo courtesy KTVA)

Desa Jacobsson, 69, remembered for political activism

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Arts & Culture, Public Safety, Southcentral, Southwest, State Government

Desa Jacobsson is remembered for her weeks long fasts and multiple arrests to call attention to violence against Alaska Native women, Native rights, subsistence and environmental issues.

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