Alaska Native Arts & Culture

Sep 20 2017
0
The Igyararmiut, the residents of Igiugig, perform a traditional blessing dance. (Photo by Avery Lill/KDLG)

After 87 years in a Smithsonian collection, bones of Igiugig ancestors return home

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, History, Southwest

In 1931, a Smithsonian anthropologist excavated the bones of 24 men, women and children from a village site near Igiugig. After eight decades in the museum’s collection, those remains were reburied near their original places of rest.

By |
Read More
Sep 15 2017
0
(Photo courtesy of Christopher Liu)

NASA Mars mission gets an assist from Delta-grown engineer

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Education, Federal Government, Science & Tech, Southwest

Thousands of miles to the south of us, engineers at NASA are hard at work on the NeMO Mission, the next orbiter mission to Mars. They got a little help this summer from an engineering intern from Bethel, and something called the Muktuk Plot.

By |
Read More
Sep 14 2017
0
John Smith is struggling to replicate the ancestral work that volunteers have found at Nunalleq. (Photo by Teresa Cotsirilos/KYUK)

In Quinhagak, an ivory carver pays tribute to the ancients’ work

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Environment, History, Southwest

An exhausted team of archaeologists on the Bering Sea coast just finished their dig at Nunalleq for the year after uncovering hundreds of artifacts. They plan to return to the 700-year-old village next summer, provided the winter storms don’t wash it away.

By |
Read More
Sep 11 2017
1
This pictograph of canoes and sun is located near Petersburg. The exact location is kept secret for fear of public vandalism. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service)

Archaeologists shed light on Tlingit culture near Petersburg, before Europeans

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Arts & Culture, History, Southeast

The current town site was established around 1900 by Norwegians looking for a good spot to process fish commercially. But archaeologists are finding more evidence that Mitkof Island is just like others in the region. Tlingit people had settlements around Petersburg for thousands of years before Europeans planted their roots.

By |
Read More
X