by Lisa Alexia | Feb 8, 2021 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Ryktheu is from a remote Northern village, near AlaskaYuri Rytkheu wrote stories that reflected the perspective of thousands of years of human evolution compressed over the course of his lifetime. Rural Alaskans will find much to appreciate in his books, because so...
by Lisa Alexia | Dec 2, 2019 | Our Backyard, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Update: Podcast with author of Floating CoastBathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, visited Alaska during the penultimate period of time before COVID-19 shut down most travel. During her stay in Anchorage, she spoke...
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 | 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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