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Night — Unuk
Agyat akirtaartut unugmi. – The stars are bright at night
In the northern hemisphere, the autumnal equinox is the September day when the sun shines directly on the Earth’s equator, creating roughly equal periods of light and darkness. The equinox is the official first day of fall. In Alaska, however, the season is well...
https://alaska-native-news.com/76608-2/76608/
#night #alutiiq #museum #word-of-the-week
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Photo: Aleut town, Afognak Village, ca. 1962. Chadwick Collection, AM528.
Aleut Town — Nasqualek
Cuumi suuget Nasqualegmi etaallriit. – People used to live in Aleut Town.
Afognak Village grew from a pair of neighboring towns—Russian Town and Aleut Town. These small communities were built about a mile apart on the western shore of Afognak Bay. At the south end of the area...
https://alaska-native-news.com/76549-2/76549/
#alutiiq #mui0seum #wordof5thewe3ek #azleut #town
Cook-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Cook — Kenirluni, Uuceslluku
Nulima keniyaskiinga akgua’aq sitiin’kamek. – My wife cooked me pork chops last night.
Photo: Cooking over a campfire on the beach. Nekeferof Collection.
Food traditions are central aspect of a society’s cultural identity. The foods that people eat, and the dishes they make from these foods, are some of the most deeply held...
https://alaska-native-news.com/76350-2/76350/
#cook #alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek
Filipino-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Charlie Petrone, a cannery foreman, and his wife on the dock in Ouzinkie. Oswalt Collection, AM487:6.
Filipino — Filipiinaq
Filipiinat taitaallriit kiagmi pekcaturluteng kaanaRimen. – The Filipino people used to come in the summer to work in the canneries.
People of Filipino heritage have been part of Alaska history for over two hundred...
https://alaska-native-news.com/76085-2/76085/
#alutiiq #museum #word-of-the-week #filipino
Pet-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Rick Rowland and his dog Shaman, Afognak Village, 1997, AM628
Pet — Qungutuwaq
Qungutuwangq'rtua. – I have a pet.
Qungutuwaq is the Alutiiq word for a tame animal. It likely began as a term for a wild animal habituated to people, but it has come to mean all kinds of pets. Tame animals, especially birds and dogs, were part of ancestral Alutiiq...
https://alaska-native-news.com/75807-2/75807/
#pet #alutiiq #word-of-the-week #museum
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Braided Seal Gut — Qiluryaq
Taugkut qiluryat ekllinartut. – Those braided seal gut look delicious.
Visitors to Kodiak often ask how Alutiiq people can hunt protected species like sea otters and sea lions. In 1972, the Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibited the harvesting of all marine mammals to preserve their populations. However, this law recognizes the importance of sea...
https://alaska-native-news.com/75706-2/75706/
#braided-seal-gut #alutiiq #Wordoftheweek #museum
Pluck-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Sven Haakanson finishes cleaning a duck with a propane torch, AM723.
Pluck — Meqciluku
Saqul'aaq meqciraa. – She is plucking the duck.
The Alutiiq verb meqciluku is commonly used to describe plucking the feathers from a bird. However, it can also mean to pull out hair or fur. This is the verb you would use to describe pulling caribou hair from a...
https://alaska-native-news.com/75480-2/75480/
#pluck #alutiiq #museum #word-of-the-week
Nettle-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: A patch of stinging nettles.
Nettle — Uqaayanaq
Uqaayanat angtaartut. – Nettles are big.
The stinging nettle (Urtica lyalli) grows widely across the northern hemisphere. It thrives in open meadows, flourishes in damp soil, and is found commonly in dense clusters in areas disturbed by human activity. In the Gulf of Alaska, nettles often grow...
https://alaska-native-news.com/75062-2/75062/
#alutiiq #museum #nettle #word-of-the-week
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Photo: Common Snipe, coastal Alaska. Courtesy of the USF&WS National Digital Library.
Snipe — Kulic’kiiq
Kulic’kiit miktut, kesiin piturnirtut. – Snipes are small but they taste good.
The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a shorebird found around Kodiak’s grassy coastal meadows, ponds, and fields during summer. This member of the sandpiper family breeds yearly across northern...
https://alaska-native-news.com/74992-2/74992/
#snipe #alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek
Shrimp-Alutiiq Wod of the Week
[the_ad id="30587"]Photo: Alaskan spot prawn. Photo courtesy of Thomas Kinsley.Shrimp — Kumitgarpak Kumitgarpat piturnirtaartut. – Shrimp are tasty.There are five species of shrimp in Gulf of Alaska waters—including coonstripe, sidestripe, humpy, northern, and spot varieties. The Alaska spot prawn (Pandalus platyceros) is the largest and a popular addition to...
https://alaska-native-news.com/shrimp-alutiiq-wod-of-the-week/74725/
#alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek
Fish Rack-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Fish hanging on rack in Old Harbor, 1889. Albatross Collection; National Archives, 22-FA-264
Fish Rack — Initaq
Iqallut iniki initamen. – Hang the fish on the fish rack.
Fish racks are an essential feature of Alutiiq communities. Although salmon, halibut, and cod are abundant in Kodiak waters, each is seasonally available....
https://alaska-native-news.com/fish-rack-alutiiq-word-of-the-week/74653/
#alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek
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Photo: Rebecca Pruitt edits audio files at the Alutiiq Museum.
Computer — Umiartusqaq
Umiartusqaq masiinaq stuulumi et'uq. – The computer is on the table.
There is a common misconception that technological change is synonymous with cultural change, that as people adopt new items of technology they adopt the values and perspectives of other cultures. For example, many visitors to Alaska...
https://alaska-native-news.com/74554-2/74554/
#computer #alutiiq #wordoftheweek
Four Wheeler-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Yolonda Inga, Athur Peterson, Thomas Rastopsoff, and Phillis Peterson on a four wheeler in Akhiok, Rostad Collection.
Four Wheeler (all-terrain vehicle or ATV) — KaaRaruangcuk, Masiinakliitarpak
Village-ni kaaRaruangcut amlertaartut. – There are a lot of four wheelers in the villages.
Four-wheelers are the...
https://alaska-native-news.com/four-wheeler-alutiiq-word-of-the-week/74436/
#fourwheeler #atv #alutiiq #wordoftheweek
Kiliuda Bay-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Winter in Kiliuda Bay, AM714.
Kiliuda Bay — Kilutaq
Suuget Kilutamen iqallugsurtaartut. – People always go to Kiliuda Bay to fish.
Kiliuda is a large bay on the eastern shore of Kodiak Island with a dramatic coastline. Kiliuda stretches about 25 km into the mountainous spine of Kodiak Island and the lands around its shore are steep. The head of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/74335-2/74335/
#kiliuda #alutiiq #wordoftheweek
Sod-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Archaeologists sitting on a pile of sod blocks. King Salmon River area, Alaska Peninsula.
Sod — Nikiiq
Engluq nikiimek patumauq. – The house is covered with sod.
The lush grasses of Alaska’s coastal meadows produce more than just weaving material for Native people. The thick tangles of roots, which cling to deep underlying layers of soil, were...
https://alaska-native-news.com/74248-2/74248/
#alutiiq #museum #sod #wordoftheweek
Clean-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Ouzinkie residents clean the community cemetary, 2020. AM905
Clean (to be) — Perinani; Eprinani
Nateq eprituq.—The floor is clean.
The Alutiiq word for clean comes from the root word pere- which means to be filthy! Add a negative post base and you get perinani, to not be filthy. This verb means to be clean. It is not used for the act of cleaning,...
https://alaska-native-news.com/74216-2/74216/
#clean #alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek
Rose Hip-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Dora Aga and grandchild collecting rose petals. Photo by Priscilla Russell, KANA Collection.
Rose Hip — Qelempaq
April-rem qelempaq caayuq pingaktaaraa. – April likes the rose hip tea.
The Nootka rose (Rosa nutkana) is a spindly shrub that grows in open areas throughout coastal Alaska. It is commonly found...
https://alaska-native-news.com/rose-hip-alutiiq-word-of-the-week/74107/
#rosehip #dora #aga #alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek
Cockle/Clam-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Christina Lukin opening clams. Afognak Village, ca. 1960. Chadwick Collection.
Cockle, Clam — Qahmaquq, Mamaayaq
Qahmaquryugtua. – I want some cockles.
Kodiak’s shores are encrusted with a wealth of intertidal organisms. Clams, cockles, whelks, mussels, sea urchins, chitons, limpets, and periwinkles are all...
https://alaska-native-news.com/cockle-clam-alutiiq-word-of-the-week/73955/
#alutiiq #clam #cockle #museum #wordoftheweek
Dead-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Ouzinkie cemetery. Smith Collection, courtesy of Tim and Norman Smith.
Dead — Tuqumaluni
Iqallut tuqumaut. – The fish are dead.
Death in traditional Alutiiq society was followed by a set of rituals that moved the deceased from daily life to the afterlife. In the Alutiiq universe, people were reincarnated five times. After their...
https://alaska-native-news.com/dead-alutiiq-word-of-the-week/73723/
#dead #alutiiq #wordoftheweek #museum
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Photo: Hiker on the edge of a Chirikof Island cliff.
Dangerous — Uluranaq
TRaapat allrani uluranartaartut. – Ladders are sometimes dangerous.
Danger is a recurring theme in the modern place names of the Kodiak Archipelago. Terror Bay, Stormy Point, Tombstone Rocks, Dark Passage, Dangerous Cape, Shark Point, Deadman Bay, and Danger Bay are some of the place names that have made their way to...
https://alaska-native-news.com/73700-2/73700/
#alutiiq #museum #dangerous
African-American Person-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Visitors to Old Harbor, 1890. Albatross Collection, courtesy of the National Archives.
African-American Person — Alap’aaq, ARap’aaq
Alap’aaq Nuniamen taillria. – An African-American person came to Old Harbor.
African American people began living and working in Alaska in the late nineteenth century. Although their history in...
https://alaska-native-news.com/73603-2/73603/
#african #alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek
Alutiiq Ancestors Featured in New Watercolor Portraits
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KODIAK, Alaska—The Alutiiq Museum has added 11 watercolor portraits of 19th-century Alutiiq/Sugpiaq people to its collections. Created by Sugpiaq artist Cheryl Lacy, the set reinterprets watercolor paintings made by Mikhail Tikhanov, a Russian artist from Saint Petersburg...
https://alaska-native-news.com/alutiiq-ancestors-featured-in-new-watercolor-portraits/73514/
#kodiak #alutiiq #museum #waterdcolors #art #purchase
Net-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Men beach seining in Afognak Bay, ca. 1961. Chadwick collection.
Net — Kugyaq, Kugyasiq
Kugyasiq aturtaaqa. – I use the net.
Alutiiq people captured salmon with a variety of traditional tools. Streams were dammed with logs or stone weirs and the fish trapped behind them speared with special fish harpoons. Larger quantities of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/net-alutiiq-word-of-the-week/73482/
#alutiiq #museum #net #wordoftheweek
Alutiiq Museum Publishes Alutiiq/Sugpiaq History Book
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KODIAK, Alaska—The history of the Kodiak Alutiiq/Sugpiaq people is the subject of a new book released Wednesday by the Alutiiq Museum. The 188-page paperback, titled Imaken Ima’ut—From the Past to the Future, traces the history of Kodiak’s Native people over more than seven millennia....
https://alaska-native-news.com/alutiiq-museum-publishes-alutiiq-sugpiaq-history-book/73312/
#alutiiq #book #history #Kodiak #sugpiaq
Elder-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Alutiiq Elder with cotton grass, photo by Priscilla Russell, KANA Collection.
Elder — Cuqlliq
Cuqllit amlen'irtut maani awa'i. – There are not many Elders around anymore.
The world’s cultures respond to aging in very different ways. Some societies believe that the aged have less to contribute than the young, considering the...
https://alaska-native-news.com/elder-alutiiq-word-of-the-week/73239/
#alutiiq #elder #museum #wordoftheweek
Elder-Alutiiq Word of the Week
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Photo: Alutiiq Elder with cotton grass, photo by Priscilla Russell, KANA Collection.
Elder — Cuqlliq
Cuqllit amlen'irtut maani awa'i. – There are not many Elders around anymore.
The world’s cultures respond to aging in very different ways. Some societies believe that the aged have less to contribute than the young, considering the...
https://alaska-native-news.com/elder-alutiiq-word-of-the-week/73239/
#alutiiq #wordoftheweek #elder #museum
Fur Seal-Alutiiq Word of the Week-March 18
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Photo: Fur Seal in the Alaska Maritime Wildlife Refuge, courtesy of the USF&WS National Digital Archive.
Fur Seal — Aatak, Isuwiq
Aatat quiliutaartut. – Fur seals are (always) fat.
Each November, northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) leave their summer home in the Pribilof Islands, swimming south to winter in the warmer waters off...
https://alaska-native-news.com/73028-2/73028/
#fur #seal #alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek
Weasel-Alutiiq Word of the Week-March 10th
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Image: Weasel, oil and acrylic on plywood, by Lena Snow Amason, 2006. Purchased with support of Rasmuson Foundation. AM570.7.
Weasel — Amitatuk
Amitatut naryartaakenka. – I used to trap weasels.
The short-tailed weasel (Mustela erminea), also known as an ermine, is one of only six land mammals indigenous to the Kodiak Archipelago. Biologists...
https://alaska-native-news.com/72905-2/72905/
#weasel #alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek
Quiver-Alutiiq Word of the Week-February 18th
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Photo: Nineteenth century wooden quiver and arrow. Gift of Father Cecil ‘Sisinii’ and Zoya Petellin King and their descendants.
Quiver — Ruuwauteq
Ruuwautet ruuwat tuumiaq’rsuutiit. – Quivers are holders for arrows.
Alutiiq hunters used different kinds of arrows for hunting on land and sea, and they stored this weaponry in a...
https://alaska-native-news.com/72595-2/72595/
#quiver #alutiiq #wordoftheweek #museum #kodiak
Jim and Bonnie Dillard Named Alutiiq Museum Volunteers of the Year
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The Alutiiq Museum has named Jim and Bonnie Dillard its volunteers of the year for 2023.
Every Valentine’s Day the Alutiiq Museum shows little love for its volunteers. We are fortunate to have many friends who contribute their time and talents to our work. To...
https://alaska-native-news.com/jim-and-bonnie-dillard-named-alutiiq-museum-volunteers-of-the-year/72566/
#dillard #volunteers #2023 #alutiiq #museum
Cod-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 20th
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Photo: Freshly caught cod.
Cod — Amutaq
Amutarsuqutartuq. – They are going to get some cod.
Pacific cod or grey cod (Gadus marcocephalus) is an abundant, bottom-dwelling, round fish found widely in the Gulf of Alaska. These fast-growing, schooling fish are highly mobile. Cod winter in deep waters along the upper slope of the continental shelf,...
https://alaska-native-news.com/72164-2/72164/
#alutiiq #cod #museum #wordoftheweek
Snow-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 31st
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Snow — Qaniq (falling), Aniuq (on ground)
Qaninguq. – It is snowing
Although the Kodiak Archipelago does not receive large quantities of snow, snow cover is present between December and March and remains in the region’s high interior mountains throughout the year. For Alutiiq people, frozen landscapes presented both opportunities and...
https://alaska-native-news.com/71760-2/71760/
#snow #wordoftheweek #alutiiq #museum
Talisman-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 26th
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Photo: Wooden box carved in the shape of a fish, perhaps to hold talismans. Karluk One Site, ca. 400 years old, Koniag, Inc. Collection. AM193.
Talisman — Nakernaq
Carliarluki nakernaten. Nakciquten. – Take care of your talisman. You will be lucky.
A rabbit's foot, a four-leaf clover, a horseshoe–these are all widely recognized...
https://alaska-native-news.com/71676-2/71676/
#alutiiq #Kodiak #museum #talisman #wordoftheweek
Dirt-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 17th
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Dirt — Iqaq
Tan’urat waamut iqami. – The boys are playing in the dirt.
The soils in the Kodiak region are relatively young, formed since the end of the last ice age less than twelve thousand years ago. Deposits of volcanic ash brought to the archipelago by the wind and the weathering of bedrock and...
https://alaska-native-news.com/dirt-alutiiq-word-of-the-week-december-17th/71534/
#alutiiq #dirt #Kodiak #museum #wordoftheweek
Backpack/Hunting Bag-Alutiiq Word of the Week-November 19th
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Backpack, Hunting Bag — Atmak, Ekgwik, Ekguiyutaq
Atmangq’rtuq. – He has a backpack.
Packing well for a hunting or fishing trip was as important in the past as it is today. Alutiiq men filled their kayaks with useful things: wooden containers filled with fresh food and water, sleeping blankets, and even...
https://alaska-native-news.com/70935-2/70935/
#huntingbag #bacpack #alutiiq #museum #wordoftheweek #kodiak
Birch-Alutiiq Word of the Week-November 5th
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Photo: Kenai birch tree near Karluk Lake.
Birch — Qasrulek, Uqgwik
Ikani uqgwit tak’ut. – The birch trees over there are tall.
The Kenai birch (Betula kenaica) is a deciduous tree with a grey, papery bark and pointed oval leaves. The Kenai birch grows in scattered groves around the Kodiak Archipelago. It is...
https://alaska-native-news.com/birch-alutiiq-word-of-the-week-november-5th/70682/
#alutiiq #birch #museum #wordoftheweek
Dream-Alutiiq Word of the Week-October 15th
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Photo: Woman asleep in a skiff, Ouzinkie 1940s. Smith Collections, courtesy of Tim and Norman Smith.
Dream — Qawangurtuaq, Qawanguq
Qawangurtuataartut. – They always dream.
For Alutiiq people, dreaming is a magical state, one that draws people closer to the spirit world. Encounters between people...
https://alaska-native-news.com/dream-alutiiq-word-of-the-week-october-15th/70295/
#alutiiq #Kodiak #museum #sleep #wordoftheweek
Contemporary Atkuk—parka Added to Museum Collection, October 2, 2023
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Photo: Susan Malutin with the parka, September 2023.
KODIAK, Alaska—The Alutiiq Museum has added a contemporary atkuk—parka to its collections. Made by Alutiiq Elder and artist Susan Malutin, the garment is inspired by the traditional black, red, and...
https://alaska-native-news.com/contemporary-atkuk-parka-added-to-museum-collection-october-2-2023/70064/
#parka #susan #malutin #alutiiq #museum #purchase
Archaeologists Recover 3,000-year-old Weavings from Ancestral Alutiiq Settlement
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Fragments of a ca. 3,000-year-old woven grass mat recovered from an ancestral Alutiiq house beside Karluk Lake.
KODIAK, Alaska—Archaeologists with the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository have uncovered fragments of woven...
https://alaska-native-news.com/archaeologists-recover-3000-year-old-weavings-from-ancestral-alutiiq-settlement/69558/
#alutiiq #eaving #karlik #lake #fragments
Thank You-Alutiiq Word of the Week-July 24th
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Thank you — Quyanaa
Quyanaa tailuci. – Thank you all for coming.
Quyanaa is the Alutiiq word for thank you. People offer this common expression of gratitude throughout the Alutiiq nation. “Quyanaa,” you might say to your host at the end of a visit, or to a friend who gives you some smoked salmon. To...
https://alaska-native-news.com/thank-you-alutiiq-word-of-the-wqeek-july-24th/69064/
#thank you #alutiiq #wordoftheweek #museum
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