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Southeast Tlingit Village Culture Impresses Arctic Alaskan PDF Print E-mail
Lindsey Wells   
Friday, 16 April 2010 22:46
Lindsey Wells
Lindsey Wells

NOORVIK—In early January 2010, our boys and girls basketball teams visited Yakutat for a tournament, but we experienced much more than just basketball. This amazing Tlingit village of about 800 residents lies about 212 miles northwest of Juneau and 225 miles southeast of Cordova in southeast Alaska. In Tlingit, Yakutat means “a place where the canoes rest.”

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Fallout from back-to-back blizzards PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 21 May 2009 12:20
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Fallout from back-to-back blizzards in Kotzebue: the authors' house buried in snow, March 2009.

Photo by John Creed
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Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices From the Far North PDF Print E-mail
Susan B. Andrews and John Creed   
Monday, 08 March 2010 09:45
Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North is an anthology offering both historical and contemporary material on a unique way of life from some of the most far-flung reaches of America's most remote state. The volume is slated for release in June 2010.
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Susan B. Andrews and John Creed are writers, editors and educators. Since the late 1980s, Professors Andrews and Creed have taught humanities and journalism at Kotzebue-based Chukchi College, a branch of the University of Alaska. Kotzebue lies about 26 miles above the Arctic Circle in northwest Alaska and some 175 miles from the eastern tip of Russia. Their anthology of Alaska Native student writers, Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers, is part of an ongoing cultural journalism project. Former full-time journalists, since joining the UA faculty they have authored non-fiction articles, columns, and book reviews for newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, and scholarly journals. They also publish photographs and fiction. Read more...
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