Presentation slides for Seals and Alaska Native Life by Aron

Alaska Native Writers and Alaska Native Themes

Presentation slides for Seals and Alaska Native Life by Aron Crowell

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This is Aron Crowell's presentation for the event Seals and Alaska Native Life. Aron Crowell is director of The Arctic Studies Center's Yakutat Seal Camp Project. Note, the podcast of the event is also posted in iTunes. The event, Seals and Alaska Native life also welcomes Esther Koezuna (Inupiat artist and skin sewer from King Island), Shaaxsaani (a Tlingit artist using traditional materials in contemporary ways), and Ilarion Larry Merculieff (author of Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan) discuss their work and relationship with seals. The event is sponsored by the Alaska Center for the Book and the UAA Campus Bookstore.

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