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BRIAN VENUAWhile efforts to repatriate Alaska Native remains have been ongoing, keeping track of those remains has been difficult. But now the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak is building a database of repatriation efforts for the archipelago’s communities. Amanda Lancaster is the Alutiiq museum’s curator of collections. She says the $99,713 grant comes from the National Park … -
Traditional Knowledge report formally incorporated into Board of Fisheries finfish meeting in KodiakFor the first time in Alaska Board of Fisheries history, a portion of the finfish meeting in Kodiak last week, January 9th – 12th, was dedicated to traditional knowledge. As KMXT’s Davis Hovey reports, the discussion covered a variety of topics, including equitable fishing for rural Kodiak Island residents. Four people testified during the first-ever …
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On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin talks with guests about health and wellness activities during Alaska Native Heritage Month. Joining Jared in the studio are: Libby Eufemio, Asst. Professor Alaska Native Studies Berta Detorres, Cama’i Club president Margie Mete, Professor of Nursing, PhD in Indigenous Studies Lisa Truitt, KANA Prevention Listen … -
Portrait of Margaret Roberts by Helen Simeonoff (watercolor, 1995) The Alutiiq community in Kodiak is mourning the passing of one of its most adored elders and culturebearers. Margaret Roberts was born in Kodiak in 1948. She passed away on Monday, according to the Alutiiq Museum, after decades of service to the Alutiiq community in Kodiak … -
Listen to this story; Child care is hard to access in Kodiak, as it is around the United States. The Sun’aq Tribe in Kodiak is trying to address the problem; Registration is now open for the tribe’s new Aluttingcut child care program. The tribe opened the program amid a rise in demand for local childcare … -
Listen to this story; Andy Teuber went missing March 2 of 2021. The 52 year-old CEO of KANA was piloting a helicopter to Kodiak from Anchorage, and is believed by the National Transportation Safety Board to have crashed due to inclement weather in the ocean waters north of Afognak Island. The NTSB declared Teuber dead, … -
Earlier this year, the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository embarked on a project to chronicle traditional Alutiiq stories and legends. That effort has finally borne fruit with the release of Unigkuat– Kodiak Alutiiq Legends on Thursday, according to the museum’s language and culture manager Dehrich Chya. “It’s hard to say when exactly the idea came … -
The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository has received ownership of the Alutiiq Center building from two Kodiak Native corporations. With an $8 million dollar grant from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council to remodel the building, transferring ownership to the museum was the logical next step, those involved with the deal said this week. … -
The Alutiiq language has lost four speakers in the last year. Tribal leaders say it’s a big loss — of the 30 remaining speakers, there are just a handful of people left who are able to teach Alutiiq. The Sun’aq tribe’s master-apprentice language program’s goal is to train new Alutiiq teachers, to spread the language … -
Kodiak’s Alutiiq Museum received a grant from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Fund Trustee Council. And it’s a whopper; $8,000,000 will go towards renovating the museum. April Laktonen Counceller, Executive Director for the Alutiiq Museum says that it will change the floorplan and scope of the facility. “Our gallery, the public part of our museum … -
The Alutiiq Museum just last week put in its third round of commemorative bricks at the Alutiiq Ancestors Memorial Park. As the museum’s public program manager Djuna Davidson explains, the bricks can commemorate many different things. “Now we have four different sort of patches of bricks, and we did fundraising campaigns to help support the … -
May 20, 2021 by Greg Kim, KYUK – Bethel Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky, D-Bethel, speaks during a House floor session in the Alaska Capitol in Juneau on Feb. 23, 2020. (Photo by Skip Gray/KTOO) The Alaska House of Representatives has passed two bills sponsored by Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky, D-Bethel. House Bill 123, a bill for the state legislature …
