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Art exhibit in Alaska connects bird research to backyards

28 June 2019 16 h 31 min Amy Mostafa, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Anchorage, birds, museums

Art and science may seem like very different disciplines. But they converge in a new exhibit in Anchorage, southcentral Alaska

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Blog – Pursuing polar studies from below the Arctic Circle

26 March 2019 8 h 54 min Mia Bennett 0 Comments education, history, Hong Kong, Takeshi Kaji

Last Friday marked the first week of spring, which means that it was also Polar Week! It was also the

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Set of Indigenous Yup’ik masks reunited in Alaska after more than a century

13 March 2019 12 h 29 min CBC News 0 Comments Anchorage Museum, art, indigenous, Inuit, Inuit art, Yup'ik

It’s a reunion that’s been more than a century in the making — a set of century-old Yup’ik masks have

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Alaskan Inuit dialect added to Facebook’s Translate app

6 July 2018 13 h 57 min Kaila Jefferd-Moore, CBC News 3 Comments Facebook, indigenous, Internet, Iñupiaq, Language, social media, technology

Facebook added Inupiaq, an Alaskan Inuit dialect, as a language option thanks to a grassroots project started by an Alaskan

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Alaska museum’s latest exhibit gives unique look at pingoes

16 June 2018 5 h 00 min Erin McKinstry, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Anchorage, Arctic, John Grade, Murmur, museum, nature, Pingo

When Seattle-base sculptor John Grade first headed to the Arctic, he was searching for the northernmost tree he could find.

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National recognition for 2 Alaska artists

23 November 2017 12 h 22 min Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation’s grant awards, Drew Michael, Sonya Kelliher-Combs

Alaska was well-represented among recipients of the 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation’s grant awards for painters and sculptors. There are only

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Indian Agent, the Alaska band reclaiming Indigenous voices

4 September 2017 8 h 30 min Tamara Ikenberg, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments art, history, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, music, Nicholas Galanin, Otis Calvin III, Zak D. Wass

In the 1800s, the U.S. government hired non-indigenous people known as Indian agents to interact with and work to assimilate

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After high-level Arctic talks, the party moves to Anchorage, Alaska

12 May 2017 15 h 39 min — 12 May 2017 17 h 50 min Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Anchorage Museum, Arctic Council, Circumpolar North

While the Arctic Council convenes in Fairbanks, the after-party is happening in Anchorage. As delegates, dignitaries and stakeholders wind down

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Lights in the sky and mysterious gravesites: Seeking the supernatural in Western Alaska

31 March 2017 17 h 46 min Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Bering Strait, indigenous knowledge, Iñupiat, Kawerak, Yup'ik

Unexplained lights in the night sky. Killer whales that transform into human beings. Bigfoot sightings. These are just a few

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‘I Am Inuit’ goes from Instagram to museum in Anchorage, Alaska

16 March 2017 12 h 52 min — 16 March 2017 19 h 53 min Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Iñupiat, photography, Yupiit

Who lives in the Arctic? And what are their stories? Those are questions posed by a new photography exhibit more

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Alaska folk schools offer lessons in countering ‘convenience culture’

3 January 2017 21 h 25 min Annie Zak, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Alaska, folk school

Raising urban chickens, making a leather belt or building a traditional kayak aren’t among the offerings you’ll usually find at

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Art of an avant-garde Arctic in downtown Anchorage

9 May 2016 17 h 11 min Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media 1 Comment Alaska, Anchorage Museum, sculpture

When people imagine Alaska’s Arctic, experimental art isn’t typically first thing that comes to mind. But a new exhibit at

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Southcentral cheer team vies for top spot at Worlds competition

23 April 2016 0 h 01 min Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments 2016 Cheerleading Worlds, Alaska Athletics

On Saturday, Alaska’s Black Ice team will compete in the 2016 Cheerleading Worlds competition in Orlando, Florida, where they’ll go head to head

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Despite back injury, Hendrickson returns to Iditarod

29 February 2016 22 h 49 min — 29 February 2016 22 h 50 min Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Alaska, Hendrickson, Iditarod, musher, mushing, sled dog race

WILLOW — After about an hour of sitting on the couch in her log home north of Willow in late January,

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Alaska cultural tourism comes with challenges

10 August 2015 15 h 32 min — 12 August 2015 12 h 22 min Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments aboriginal, indigenous, Tlingit, travel

Several times a week, Cecelia George dresses in the regalia of her Tlingit ancestors to play the coveted role of Raven

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