by Amber Webb | Oct 26, 2020 | Our Communities, Our Health: Body, Mind & Spirit
Artist/author Amber Webb describes her work above as “Sketching the story of how the Spanish Flu pandemic hit Bristol Bay in 1919 and changed the region. The map is about Goodnews Bay to the edge of Nushagak Bay. It also includes the lakes. Not a very accurate...
by Corinna Cook | Jul 25, 2020 | Our Communities, Our Health: Body, Mind & Spirit, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Editor’s Note: This review of Under Nushagak Bluff by Mia C. Heavener, is part one of two posts about pandemics in rural Alaska. Both posts feature creative responses from surviving descendants of the 1918 flu pandemic in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Historical notes...
by Lisa Alexia | Jun 10, 2020 | Freedom and Security, Our Communities
This post emphasizes the history of Black and African Americans in Alaska, with links to a variety of resources. Despite persistent lack of diversity in publishing, good regional books by and about Blacks and African Americans in Alaska do exist. Some are by smaller...
by Lisa Alexia | May 31, 2020 | Our Communities, Reviews of Books and Other Media |
Water flows over and through the pebbles on the cover of Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North. Water connects. Mary Odden, a long-time resident of rural Alaska, has graced us with this collection of essays written over the course of her many years in various...
by Mary Odden | May 10, 2019 | Our Communities, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Rob McCue’s One Water is a refreshingly interior account, not only because the first person narrator reports from inside the action—often the interior of the city cab he drives in half the stories—but also in the sense of “interior” Alaska, with Fairbanks as its hub...
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...
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