Quuq; Nuya’itstaq – Hide and Seek Uswillraraat quuq’rtut. – The children are playing hide and seek. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken) Hide and seek is one of many popular outdoor children’s games long played in Alutiiq communities. According to anthropologist Kaj Birket-Smith, who visited the Chugach Alutiiq people in the 1930s, children […]
TOOLIK FIELD STATION — After 800-plus miles by snowmachine and three weeks of working in the same clothes, it’s time to pack our duffel bags, stuff them into a barrel and set them on fire. Just kidding about the burn barrel, but three lake studiers and I returned last night to the slushy snow of […]
It was at approximately 7:50 pm on Saturday night that troopers were called to the scene of an accident involving three fatalities on the Glenn Highway. When troopers and EMS arrived on the scene at mile 37 of the Glenn Highway, EMS pronounced three motorcyclists deceased at 7:56 pm. Those who died at the scene […]
It was on Friday evening, at 8:25 pm that Alaska State Troopers stopped a vehicle a 1198 Ford Taurus for a moving violation on the Sterling Highway at mile 48 in Cooper Landing. But, as troopers approached the vehicle, the vehicle sped away from the scene and travelled up Snug Harbor Road at a high […]