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The remains of four members of the Alutiiq community came to their final resting places at a cemetery in Kodiak this week. Members of the Sun’aq Tribe and the Alutiiq Museum gathered at Kodiak’s City Cemetery for the burial on Monday, June 6. The graveside service was led by the local Russian Orthodox church. April Counceller is the executive director …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Ferries to Sail After Shutdown, Alutiiq Museum Gets Repatriation Grant, Special Session Update

Last week, Koniag announced a $50,000 donation to support COVID-19 response efforts for Alaska Native tribes and other beneficiaries on the Kodiak archipelago. President of Koniag, Shauna Hegna, says the corporation has met with tribal leaders and village corporation leaders four times since the beginning of the pandemic, and narrowed down their top concern to food security. Part of the …

Marlise Lee photographs Baby Raven, a mask by Alutiiq artist Jerry Laktonen. (Photo courtesy the Alutiiq Museum) The Alutiiq Museum is launching a new Arts Advocacy Project to support Native artists in Kodiak. The project comes from a nearly $19,000 grant from the Alaska Community Foundation’s Alaska Native Social Justice Fund. The idea, says Gallery Coordinator Marlise Lee, is to …

The Alutiiq Museum is hosting an event called Culture Fest this weekend, as a way to get the community involved in the museum’s annual meeting. “We need to do our annual meeting and we wanted to find a way to make it more relevant for the community besides just having a public board meeting,” said Djuna Davidson, Education and Outreach …

The Kodiak Alutiiq /Sugpiaq Repatriation Commission has been working for years to recover artifacts and human remains of the community’s ancestors. As part of that effort, a new park in downtown Kodiak is dedicated to ancestors uprooted from their homeland. More than a thousand metal salmon cutouts, each representing a repatriated Alutiiq ancestor, cover the inside of the archway at …

Our guests this week are Patrick Saltonstall and Molly Odell from the Alutiiq Museum. They talk about archaeological surveys around Kodiak, primarily about looking for previously unknown sites. We also learn how the historic record can change as new sites and new information is learned. 2018 Dig Group. Crew begins excavations at the Qikr’tangcut (Little Island) site in 2018. (Photo …

Museum archaeologist Patrick Saltonstall and helicopter pilot Keller Wattum documenting a petroglyph site on Afognak. (Photo courtesy of Patrick Saltonstall) Mitch Borden/KMXT A local researcher took to the air to do a survey on Afognak Island, but what was meant to be a routine assessment of known historical sites turned into a day full of surprises. Patrick Saltonstall usually travels …

The draft design plan for the downtown park. (Courtesy of Alutiiq Museum) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository is now more than halfway to the funding goal for its Ancestors’ Memorial. They’re developing a piece of city land just behind the museum into a public park that’ll honor Alutiiq ancestors, history, and culture. Chief curator Amy Steffian says …

Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology Patrick Saltonstall holds up the journal documenting his discoveries at Kiliuda Bay. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT When the colder months come around, local archeologists settle in to process the warmer month’s discoveries. That’s what Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology Patrick Saltonstall is doing. He’s turning the museum’s findings about a site …