On Monday, the Alaska State Troopers based in Kodiak received a report of a burglary that had taken place in the Woodland Acres Subdivision. The homeowner reported at 7:52 pm, that while he was out of town, a person or persons burglarized his home and took fifteen firearms from his residence. He stated that the […]
Three Kodiak individuals have been arrested and are in custody at the Kodiak Jail following a search warrant issued in connection with a Kidnapping/Robbery case that took place on Monday morning in the woods outside the town of Kodiak. Arrested in the case were Jami Gibson, age 39, Philip Gibson, age 38, and Julian Valdez, age […]
MiskiiRaq; MiskiiRiat – Spider Ugnerkami miskiiRiat amleritaartut. – In the spring there are many spiders. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken) There at least 350 species of spiders in Alaska, belonging to seventeen families. Spiders are not insects. They are close relatives of ticks and mites and belong to a group called arachnids. […]
Quuq; Nuya’itstaq – Hide and Seek Uswillraraat quuq’rtut. – The children are playing hide and seek. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken) Hide and seek is one of many popular outdoor children’s games long played in Alutiiq communities. According to anthropologist Kaj Birket-Smith, who visited the Chugach Alutiiq people in the 1930s, children […]