Caguyaq – Hunting Hat Caguyaq qupuramek canamauq. – The hunting hat is made of wood. In the cool, wet Kodiak environment, hats are an essential item of clothing. Among Alutiiqs, headgear was once fashioned from many different materials. Warm, water-resistant hats were sewn from animal pelts and loon skins, woven from spruce root, and carved […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returned to Kodiak Wednesday following a successful 68-day deployment patrolling more than 12,000 miles throughout the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Alex Haley, known as the “Bulldog of the Bering,” departed Kodiak in July and spent the last two months conducting operations in the Bering […]
Lla – Weather; Sky; Outdoors; Universe; World Lla Asirtuq. – The weather is good. The world’s cultures have a great variety of beliefs about the sky. Tlingit people see the sky as an upside-down bowl with a hard surface. Their sky has layers that provide a home for the souls of those died from violence. […]
Early on Friday morning, at 5:01 am, Alaska State Troopers received a call from an elderly Kodiak woman reporting that she had been assaulted. Troopers say that they received a call from the 76-year-old who told them that 35-year-old Doreen Williams assaulted her on Thursday. She also recounted how Williams had assaulted her previously on […]