by M. Jacqui Lambert | Mar 9, 2019 | Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Split Tooth review, written by Iñupiaq author and publisher, M. Jacqui Lambert, who is from Kotzebue, Alaska, with family roots in Noorvik and Kiana. Split Tooth © 2018, by Tanya Tagaq, Published by Viking Canada of Penguin Random House Canada, September 25,...
by Lisa Alexia | Feb 16, 2019 | Our Health: Body, Mind & Spirit, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Starting a Fire: Bringing Light to the Dark, by Tia Wakolee ©2018 (Note: Article updated July 1, 2020 to reflect current information about how to obtain the book). Tia Wakolee has done a brave and necessary thing. She has shared her stories with the world as a step in...
by Lisa Alexia | Jan 2, 2019 | Our Health: Body, Mind & Spirit, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Nearly twenty years ago, while preparing to move to remote Alaska with my first husband, my stepmother asked me “How can you even think about moving so far away from your family and other people you love?” At the time, the calculus of my love for and...
by Lisa Alexia | May 27, 2018 | Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir by Thomas Pecore WesoWisconsin Historical Society Press, © 2016 Indigenous Anthropology of the Upper Midwest: Wild Rice People Wild rice is a storied and staple grain throughout the upper midwest. The tribal name...
by Lisa Alexia | Apr 27, 2018 | Our Communities, Reviews of Books and Other Media |
Menadelook: An Inupiat Teacher’s Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932, Edited by Eileen Norbert.©Sealaska Heritage Institute. Published by University of Washington Press, 2017. Grandaughter of Menadelook Documents His LegacyEileen Norbert has raised the bar...
by Lisa Alexia | Apr 1, 2018 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media |
Village School Libraries When I first moved to a small village in rural Alaska, I would go hang out in the school library. A lot. It was the public internet access point, and as such, a gathering place for the village. I was amazed to find so many books there, in this...