Alutiiq Community Mourns Loss of Margaret Agnguarta Roberts

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Alutiiq Community Mourns Loss of Margaret Agnguarta Roberts

An Alutiiq legend has joined the ancestors. The board and staff of the Alutiiq Heritage Foundation & Alutiiq Museum are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Margaret Agnguarta Roberts (1948– 2022), the chair of the Alutiiq Heritage Foundation Board of Directors and a life-long advocate for the Alutiiq people. Born and raised in Kodiak, […]

Alutiiq Angyaq Inducted into Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame

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Alutiiq Angyaq Inducted into Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame

  Before there were pick-up trucks, there was the Alutiiq/Sugpiaq angyaq (open boats). Crafted explicitly for heavy seas, and mass transportation, and made from local materials, these historic skin-covered boats were used in Sugpiaq society for harvesting and traveling. Angyaq were owned by families. The Alaska State Committee on Research honors the creativity, traditional ecological […]