Word of the Week Lesson 16:5 Patreitaq (n); Patriitaq (S) – Photograph Patriitairnga. – Take a picture of me. {mp3}archive/photo{/mp3} The world’s first photographs were taken in the 1830s, when French scientist Louis Daguerre captured images on copperplates treated with silver and mercury. Twenty years later, in the1850s, photography became popular in the United States […]
Word of the Week Lesson 16:4 Aq’alarluni – Jumper (as in a salmon) Aq’alartut iluani. – There are jumpers inside (the seine). (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken) Jumping salmon are a conspicuous sign of summer around Kodiak. Scan the surface of the ocean in June and you will see pink salmon hurling themselves […]
The Alutiiq Museum will receive $32,000 from the Alaska State Council for the Arts Operation Support program. The money will be distributed over two years. It is designed to provide foundational support for Alaska’s arts organizations by supporting ongoing artistic and administrative expenses.
Word of the Week Lesson 16:3 Qecengluni – Run Uswiillraraat cecengtaartut. – Kids are always running around. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken) In classical Alutiiq society, runners passed important news from one village to the next. Elders recall young men running along the beach to carry messages to neighboring communities. When they arrived, […]