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 | 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...
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