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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.
Professors Paul Ongtooguk and Jackie Cason discuss Alaska Native voices and environmental conservation movements in Alaska. Topics include Alaska Village and Native Corporation jurisdictions, John Muir's legacy, the Sierra Club, and the book The Firecracker Boys by Dan O’Neill.
Paul Ongtooguk...
Published 10/14/19
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou is a new bilingual volume based on a series of oral interviews with Gwich'in elders living in rural northeast Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Richly illustrated, the book covers a wide range of topics based on traditional harvesting and use of...
Published 10/01/19