Blocked-Alutiiq Word of the Week
Blocked — Sapurluni Sapuraanga. – I am weathered in. (literally, “It blocked me.”) The Alutiiq verb sapuluku means, “to block it”: to physically obstruct something or someone. For example, you could use this word on your boat, when a very low tide kept you from traveling through a channel, or to indicate that locked doors are […]