Puyurniq – Nagoonberry Puyurnit piturnirtaartut. – Nagoonberries always taste good. Commonly known as the wild raspberry, or arctic raspberry, the nagoonberry (Rubus arcticus) is a low-growing plant that bears a sweet, dark red, segmented, raspberry-like fruit. On Kodiak, Alutiiq people use the same term for nagoonberry and raspberry, illustrating the similarity between this indigenous fruit […]
[wds id=”9″]ATIGUN RIVER — Goodbye, red squirrels. On our summer-long hike along the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, this morning my dog Cora and I left the last tangle of boreal forest along America’s highway system. We walked away from a campsite of white spruce and balsam poplar that shielded us during a rain and […]
A Monashka Bay vehicle crash on Saturday night ended in flames as the vehicle burst into flames, troopers in Kodiak report. Troopers responded to the scene of the roll-over crash at mile 2.6 of Monashka Bay Road in Kodiak at 10:07 pm Saturday night to conduct an investigation. Their investigation found that a 16-year-old Kodiak […]
Troopers report that a warrant was issued mid-week and carried out at the end of the week for manslaughter against Savoonga resident, Felix Wongittilin, who was involved in a fatal ATV accident on July 8th in that community. Troopers had received a report from the community of Savoonga late in the evening on July 8th, […]