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From the Vault: Project Chariot and the Dawn of Environmental Impact Analysis (Eddie Bauer LLC)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. Eddie Bauer LLC) ... At first, the only people actively opposed to the project were some of the scientists conducting the pre-blast studies and the residents of Point Hope, an Inupiat village 30 miles north of the proposed blast site, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in North America ... In response to Chariot, the Inupiat also organized, and established the first Native Alaskan newspaper, the Tundra Times....

New Film Explores The Challenges Of Keeping Alaska's Whaling Culture Alive

Edit Huffington Post 08 Apr 2016
Inupiaq, the language of the Inupiat who live in Northwestern Alaska, the Seward Peninsula and the North Slope of Alaska, is mainly spoken by the elderly, and many of the youth living there today say they do not know how to hunt caribou or harvest whales or transform a bearded seal into a skin boat, let alone speak the language of their grandparents....

State lawmakers don Alaska Native garments to honor culture

Edit Springfield News-Sun 07 Apr 2016
Every Friday during the Alaska legislative session, a growing group of state lawmakers trades suit coats and sweater sets for a loose-fitting traditional Alaska Native garment commonly called a kuspuk (KUH'-spuhk). The kuspuk cuts vary almost as much as the trim chosen by the seamstress ... Inupiat legislator Eileen MacLean occasionally wore her kuspuk during floor sessions before Sattler, she said ... "They're just really practical and fun ... ....

April talks at the Bookstore explore religion, warfare, mountaineering, language and more (University of Alaska Anchorage)

Edit Public Technologies 31 Mar 2016
(Source. University of Alaska Anchorage). The UAA Campus Bookstore actively organizes free events to promote expression and engaged discussion. See the schedule below to learn what's planned for this April ... Lessons from Paris'. Saturday, April 2, 1-3 p.m ... S ... Dr ... Dr ... It explores how has and how can Inupiaq spirituality-culture inform and shape the immigrant Christian system, as well as the lives of Inupiat who have embraced Protestant beliefs....

Alaska nursing home asks to serve seal oil to Native clients

Edit The Oklahoman 28 Mar 2016
Maniilaq hopes it can add seal oil to the list of traditional foods that can legally be donated to facilities such as its Kotzebue nursing home, which serves elderly Inupiat ......

The Latest: Sanders' work with tribes impresses Alaska voter

Edit Tampa Bay Online 26 Mar 2016
ANCHORAGE, Alask (AP) — The Latest on the Alaska Democratic party caucuses for president (all times local).. 1.51 p.m. Shannon McDermott, a 25-year-old Inupiat Eskimo from Anchorage, said she supported Bernie Sanders in Saturday's election because he has made tribes across the country a priority of his campaign. Sanders easily defeated Hillary Clinton in Alaska's Democratic Caucuses ... ___. .23 p.m ... There are 20 delegates up for grabs ... ___ ... ....

Democratic voter voices from Washington, Alaska and Hawaii

Edit Tampa Bay Online 26 Mar 2016
Democrats in Washington state, Alaska and Hawaii are making a choice on their party's candidate for president Saturday. Voters supporting either Sen. Bernie Sanders or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said important issues to decide on include war, the ability to compromise and honesty ... ___ ... ___ ... ___ ... --- ... "I support Bernie Sanders because he is meeting with tribes all across the United States," said McDermott, an Inupiat Eskimo ... ....

In the Iditarod, climate change makes it a year for the record books

Edit The Los Angeles Times 16 Mar 2016
The winters keep getting warmer. The racers keep getting faster. When Dallas Seavey and his team of sled dogs arrived in this remote old gold rush town on the Bering Sea shortly after 2 a.m ... 2016 IDITAROD sled race ... Zero ... While the area covered by sea ice can vary, he said, “the quality” of the ice, how continuous and thick it is, has been a concern for mushers and native Yupik and Inupiat subsistence hunters from the area ... ....

HUD Allocates $97.7 Million in Indian Housing Block Grants to More than 240 Alaska Tribes & Villages (Alaska/US Department of Housing and Urban Development)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Mar 2016
(Source. Alaska/US Department of Housing and Urban Development). HUD ALLOCATES MORE THAN $660 MILLION TO NATIVE AMERICAN. COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced more than $660 million in grant allocations to 587 Native American tribes in 35 states (see list below) ... ### ... at www.hud.gov and http.//espanol.hud.gov ... State ... City ... Native Village of Barrow Inupiat....

First oil flows from Alaska reserve set aside in '23

Edit Springfield News-Sun 03 Mar 2016
Rising from the edgeless, wind-scoured, snow-covered tundra on Alaska's North Slope lies a million-pound drilling rig pulling the first commercial oil from a reserve set aside nearly a century ago ... Harding dedicated as an emergency oil supply for the U.S. Navy in 1923 ... The Inupiat village agreed with the new plan and now welcome the financial opportunities that oil brings to the native community in terms of taxes and jobs ... ....

Aurora explored in film by scientists and Inupiat elders (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Mar 2016
When the northern lights are bright and strong, the ancestors are happy, according to Inupiat elders highlighted in a new documentary by the University of Alaska Fairbanks ... The Northern Lights' is full of information about the aurora provided by both Inupiat people and UAF Geophysical Institute scientists ... 'We learned so much about Inupiat culture from the elders,' said Lynda McGilvary, project director....

UA Press releases account of couple’s journeys in the North (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Feb 2016
(Source. University of Alaska Fairbanks). The University of Alaska Press has released 'Our Perfect Wild. Ray and Barbara Bane's Journeys and the Fate of the North,' by Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan with Ray Bane. As teachers in Barrow and Wainwright in the early 1960s, the Banes lived and embraced the lifestyle of their Inupiat Eskimo and later Koyukon friends and neighbors ... 'Our Perfect Wild ... Original Document ... (noodl. 32278539) ....

HUD ALLOCATES MORE THAN $660 MILLION TO NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING (US ...

Edit Public Technologies 16 Feb 2016
(Source. US Department of Housing & Urban Development). HUD ALLOCATES MORE THAN $660 MILLION TO NATIVE AMERICAN. COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced more than $660 million in grant allocations to 587 Native American tribes in 35 states (see list below) ... ### ... at www.hud.gov and http.//espanol.hud.gov ... State. Recipient. City ... Native Village of Barrow Inupiat....
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