MiRikaan’saaq – American MiRikaan’saat amlertut Sun’ami. – There are many American people in Kodiak. In the eighteenth century, Russian entrepreneurs spread eastward into Alaska, settling the Pacific coast of North America to claim land and harvest the region’s rich resources. Although the number of Russian colonists was very small, they established communities from western Alaska […]
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Alutiiq Word of the Week, the Museum’s lessons on all things Alutiiq. From aakanaq (old fish) to yataaq (poison), the word of the week pairs an Alutiiq word and sentence with a short lesson on Alutiiq traditions. Since its debut on July 6, 1998, the museum has […]
(Fairbanks)—Governor Bill Walker and Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott congratulated Alaska Federation of Native’s 2016 Citizen of the Year Mike Toyukak Thursday morning during AFN’s 50th annual convention in Fairbanks. Toyukak and others sued the State of Alaska in 2013 for lack of language assistance for voters with limited proficiency in English in the Dillingham and Kusilvak […]
Sealaska Heritage Institute’s work on the Tlingit language was chosen by a federal humanities agency as one of 50 projects in the country that has enriched and shaped American lives during the last half century. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) singled out SHI’s efforts to document and revitalize the Tlingit language as part […]