Suarnituluni – Wild Tasting / Gamey Una tuntuq suarnituu’uq. – This deer has a wild taste. Wild meats can have a gamey taste. There are people who claim to like this flavor, but most prefer to avoid eating gamey steaks and roasts. To prevent filling their larders with wild-tasting deer, elk, goat, or bear, Alutiiqs […]
It was announced by the Department of Justice on Wednesday that a Kodiak man, who was involved in an assault on the Coast Guard Base in Kodiak, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. It was in mid-February, that 51-year-old Michael Ensley went to the base without authorization and then proceeded […]
Ciqiluku – Splash It Yaamat ciqiki. – Splash the rocks. It’s Saturday evening and curls of smoke drift from the small shed next to an Alutiiq home. It is banya night and a family has lit the woodstove in their bathhouse to heat rocks and water for washing. Inside, smooth, water-worn beach cobbles cover a […]
Eric McDaniel, the subject of what the Kodiak police called the biggest drug bust ever made by that department, was was sentenced on Thursday by Chief United States District Court Judge Ralph Beistline, U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced on Thursday. It was on April 19th, that Kodiak police conducted a mid-morning raid on a […]