Alaska Native and American Indian Heritage Month - November 2008
Each November the nation celebrates Alaska Native/American Indian Heritage Month. For the past six years, Anchorage has joined the rest of the nation through a variety of community and school activities.
Alaska Native/American Indian Heritage Month is honored throughout our city. For more information visit the organization's Web site at www.alaskanativeheritagemonth.org.
This booklet assists with honoring Alaska Native and American
Indians with calling attention to the 10,000 year history of Alaska Native and American
Indians who today comprise the second largest ethnic group in the Anchorage School
District, the first being white. The individuals and groups gathered for this book are eager to make presentations,
answer questions, and share his/her Native culture in the classroom. All presentations
from the individuals and groups listed in this book are FREE during the month of
November.
There are many community members and organizations that have worked collaboratively
to see this project to attrition. Each shares in the responsibility to meet and exceed in the
academic, social, and cultural needs of our students. Please take some time to thank the
efforts of The CIRI Foundation, The Alaska State Council on the Arts, Key Bank, Healing
Racism in Anchorage, Alyeska Pipeline Company and the Anchorage School District.
The speakers should also be acknowledged as well.
Scheduling
To
schedule one of these guests, teachers should fill
out a Community Resources Request Form and mail or
fax (742-4137) it to Marva Stevens in the Community
Resources Office at the ASD Education Center.
Teachers can access this form through the
forms & publications library on the district's
internal Web site at http://home.asdk12.org. (Please
note: This site is only available to employees from
computers connected to the district's network.)
Mail:
Community Resources
ATTN: Marva Stevens
5530 E Northern Lights Blvd
Anchorage, AK 99504-3135
Fax:
907-742-4137
Local Events
Check out the Alaska
Native/American Indian Heritage Month Web site for
a calendar of events and links to other great
information about this month. A wide variety of
events will take place throughout November including
films, intertribal gatherings, readings, discussions and other opportunities to
learn about native cultures. Here are just a few highlights:
Alaska Native Heritage Month 2008 Kick-off Reception
Friday, October 30, 2008
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public
Anchorage Museum at Rasmussen Center
Please join us for the Alaska Native Heritage Month Kick-off Reception. The event will feature a special performance by Pamuya, Alaska's world renowned Yup'ik and Inuit acapella singing group. Feast on refreshments, while emcee Andrea Gusty discusses what’s in store for the rest of the month. The event will be fun for any age, with activities for children at the mezzanine level of the museum. For more information, please call 343-6187
Discover the culture of "People of the Sea"
Thursday, November
13, 2008
6:30 p.m. at the Muldoon Branch Library
Join multigenerational Native Alaska group Imamsuat as they celebrate the traditions of the Sugpiat (Alutiiq) culture in a special dance performance.
A discussion: "Alaska Natives moving to Anchorage"
Saturday, November 22, 2008
UAA Campus Bookstore
Join Willie Hensley, Native activist and author of the forthcoming book "Fifty Miles for Tomorrow", Doreen Brown, Anchorage School District's Native Education Director and others for a discussion on the movement of Alaska Natives from villages to an urban community. Please bring your thoughts to the discussion at the UAA Campus Bookstore. For more information contact Rachel Epstein at 786-4782.
In November students and staff will enjoy many opportunities to
learn about Alaska Native and American Indian culture and history. Channel
14 will be broadcasting a variety of programming related to
this heritage month. Below are highlights of programs being shown throughout November.
Check the Channel 14 November schedule for more details »
Program
Alaska - Aleut Evacuation
Story of the Aleut interment during WW II
Alaska Native Heritage Center High School Program Recruitment Video
Camai Dance Festival First Dance 2000
Exploring Alaska - Ggugguyni
The Native Youth Olympics
Kayaks
Kuwoot yas.Ein
His Spirit is Looking Out From the Cave
Long Journey Home - Keepers of the Treasures of Alaska
More Than Bows and Arrows
American Indian cultures
NANA - Two Worlds, One Spirit
Nourished by Our Food-Sustained by Our Traditions
Our Alutiiq Journey
On the Wings of Tomorrow
Rain Country
Kids re-enact the events surrounding passage of laws supporting Native Rights
Shadow Walkers
Alaska Native cultural compilation
Siulipta Paitaat
Our Ancestor's Heritage & Journey of Discovery - History of the Bering Land Bridge
Talking and Listening the Alaska Way
The Box of Daylight
The Drum
The Journey
The Land is Ours
The People of Ukpiagvik
Voices of Our Ancestors - Celebration 2000
We of the River
When My Spirit Raised Its Hands
Life and times of Elizabeth Peratrovich
Yukon Circles
One People - One River
Yukon River Inter -Tribal Watershed Council
Reading Lists
Log onto WebCat, the district's library
catalog to get reading lists on the topics below. Click
here to log in, then type ASD in the user ID
box and click login. Once you are logged in, look
for the "Have you Read?" button at the top of the
page. Categories include:
Alaska History, Geography and Culture for
Young Adults
Alaska Native Literature
Alaskan Authors
Many Peoples, One Land
Native American Indians - Fiction
Native American Indians - Oral Traditions
Native American Indians - Poetry
Native American Literature
Other online resources
This list was developed to provide a starting place
for learning more about American Indians and Alaska
Natives. It is in no way intended to be an exhaustive
list and
the
contents
of these Web sites are not specifically endorsed by
the Anchorage School District.
