The trooper dispatch reported on Thursday afternoon that they had responded to the remote island of Shuyak, 50 air-miles north of the city of Kodiak, to conduct a welfare check on a man there after receiving a request to do so on Tuesday, only to find that the man was a victim of homicide. Kodiak-based […]
K’ligluku – Carve It Qupuraq k’liaqa. – I am carving the wood. Carving was once a daily act in Alutiiq communities. Native craftsmen made weapons: shafts, arrows and harpoons, split timbers to build houses and boats, and chiseled images into wood. Through woodworking, Alutiiq people produced many of the tools essential for daily life and […]
Sapurluni – Blocked Sapuraanga. – I am weathered in. (literally, “It blocked me.”) The Alutiiq verb sapuluku literally 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 […]
Alaska Wildlife Troopers are seeking information from the public concerning the killing of a Kodiak Brown Bear sow found near the dump in the community of Port Lions on Kodiak Island. Wildlife troopers received a report of a dead Kodiak Bear across from the Port Lions dump on Saturday. Units from the AWT responded to […]