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- Sprasnikum to all celebrating the feast day of the Sts. Sergius and Herman of Valaam Church in Nanwalek! July 11, 2015
- List of Document and Digital Sources I deposited at the Nanwalek Library and Museum June 4, 2015
- Celebration of Pascha April 6, 2015
- A Selection of Online Resources – new page on the webiste March 29, 2015
- Video Collection Section – Two Interviews Posted December 24, 2014
- The Sugt’stun App Project – Funded! November 22, 2014
- Sugpiaq Catalog – Pratt Museum October 3, 2014
- Photographing Collection Pieces May 31, 2014
- Sugpiaq Catalog Workshop May 22, 2014
- “As promised” photos from the Pratt Museum March 28, 2014
- News form The Frontiersman – 1947 March 22, 2014
- Old Church History, Passage Island Fox Farm, and News from the Past March 6, 2014
- Archaeological finds and old photos of Nanwalek February 20, 2014
- Four more photos from the Pratt Museum’s Archives (1890s-1930s) February 12, 2014
- Port Graham School Children 1934 January 27, 2014
- Pratt Museum – Smith Family Historic photograph collection January 21, 2014
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Sprasnikum to all celebrating the feast day of the Sts. Sergius and Herman of Valaam Church in Nanwalek!
Alma Moonin asked me to put together some information on Sts. Sergius and Herman of Valaam as well as the Nanwalek Russian Orthodox Church named after the two Saints. The feast day of the Church is celebrated on July 11th. … Continue reading
List of Document and Digital Sources I deposited at the Nanwalek Library and Museum
During the past years, I worked on different projects in collaboration with community members in Nanwalek as well as with the Nanwalek IRA Council. One type of research I did for collecting information on the history of the lower Kenai … Continue reading
Celebration of Pascha
Today is Palm Sunday according to the Julian calendar (and Easter according to the Gregorian calendar) and many Orthodox Christians, including the community of Nanwalek, prepare for the last week of the Great Lent, Great Week, to celebrate Pascha, Christ’s … Continue reading
Posted in Sugpiaq, Sugpiaq Russian Orthodoxy, Sugt'stun
Tagged Pascha, Sugpiaq Russian Orthodoxy, Sugt'stun
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A Selection of Online Resources – new page on the webiste
I opened a new area of the website to start listing other resources available on the internet that are relevant to the history of the region. Below are a few highlights. You can find the full list of links on … Continue reading
Video Collection Section – Two Interviews Posted
A new section of Nanwalek History – Video Collections nested under Oral History – went up this past week with the help of research assistant Ivana Ash. Ivana summarized two interviews and composed English descriptions for them. In the first … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Oral History, Sugt'stun
Tagged Bigfoot story, English Bay, growing up Nanwalek, Oral history, Sugt'stun, Videos
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The Sugt’stun App Project – Funded!
This post is to share the good news that the Sugt’stun App – Android Apps for the Preservation of Endangered Languages project has been generously funded by the University of Alaska Anchorage’s (UAA’s) Faculty Development Grant. This is a collaborative … Continue reading
Sugpiaq Catalog – Pratt Museum
Here is the final product of the Lower Kenai Peninsula Material Culture and Heritage Preservation Project – the Sugpiaq Catalog. It can be downloaded in a pdf version by clicking on the title below. Lower Kenai Peninsula Sugpiaq Catalog – Pratt … Continue reading
Photographing Collection Pieces
At the Pratt Museum, we spent this past Saturday and Sunday photographing collection pieces from the Sugpiaq Catalog. Thanks to the generous support of Museums Alaska, we were able to contract with Daryl Kreun, Port Graham photographer, to work with … Continue reading
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Sugpiaq Catalog Workshop
As part of the Lower Kenai Peninsula Material Culture and Heritage Preservation project, generously funded by Museums Alaska, we had a busy few days at the Pratt Museum. We had Alma Moonin from Nanwalek completing training on general museum collection … Continue reading
“As promised” photos from the Pratt Museum
This week I am posting two photos I promised a few weeks back to various people interested in the history of the lower Kenai Sugpiaq region. The first photo is the one I mentioned on Facebook’s Sugpiat message board last week … Continue reading
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