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Juneau Police Release Identity of Grapple Hook-Wielding Suspect Shot Dead Sunday

By Alaska Native News on Jan 1, 2020 Featured, General News

Juneau police have released the name of the man menacing an officer with a grappling hook attached to a chain who was then shot there on early Sunday morning as 34-year-old Kelly Michael Stephens of Juneau. A JPD officer responded to the initial call at 10:18 pm on Saturday night from a caller who […]

Fish Hook-Alutiiq Word of the Week-July 8th

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Jul 8, 2018 Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News

Iqsak—Fishhook Iksak ipegtuq.—The fishhook is sharp. Archaeological sites in the Kodiak Archipelago illustrate that Alutiiq ancestors have harvested marine fish for many thousands of years. Even the earliest camps hold grooved cobbles used to weight fishing rigs to the ocean floor. More recent sites preserve the wood and bone parts of these rigs. Alutiiq people […]