PAAPUSKAAQ – MIDWIFE UKALUTEN, PAAPUSKAAQ IWA’ARU! CARLIANGQUTARTUQ. – HURRY, GET THE MIDWIFE! SHE’S GOING TO HAVE A BABY. Each Alutiq community had at least one midwife, a healer versed in herbal medicines and the arts of bloodletting, surgery, and childbirth. Appointed by her community at a young age and apprenticed to an older midwife, […]
ET’UUQ – DEEP TAANGAQ ET’UUQ. – THE WATER IS DEEP. Alaskan fishermen pull all sorts of interesting things out of the ocean. The North Pacific’s strong currents carry an abundance of flotsam to Kodiak waters, delivering items from as far away as the tropics. Sometimes, however, these finds come not from surface of the ocean […]
