The Sheldon Jackson Museum is recruiting for a full-time, permanent year-round Museum Protection & Visitor Services Assistant to work the front desk, galleries and facility of the Sheldon Jackson Museum.
This position provides administrative support for museum operations, public programming and education, and performs other front-line work sharing and safeguarding Alaska's cultural heritage.
Fifty years ago, U.S. Congress passed legislation that permanently terminated Alaska Natives’ land claims. On its anniversary, Alaska Public Media and the Anchorage Daily News, with Indigenous leaders from around the state as guests, examine the legacy of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and its impacts on subsistence, culture and the state’s economy.
Aaron Leggett, Senior Curator of Alaska History & Indigenous Culture at the Anchorage Museum guest hosts Episode 1: Was ANCSA fair? Or is that the wrong question?
"Unsettled: A podcast examining the legacy of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act" by Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media.
Petersburg’s Indigenous name is Séet Ká Kwáan. It means people of the fast moving waters, referring to the Wrangell Narrows in front of town.
At the Séet Ká Festival in mid-February, X̱’unei Lance Twitchell led a group in pronouncing Séet Ká. He is an Associate Professor of Alaska Native Languages at the University of Alaska Southeast. He says using a language helps normalize it in a community...
The Clausen Museum in Petersburg is starting to include Lingít signage in its building and that’s something that Twitchell encourages. He says the Indigenous words can be in addition to other languages already present like English and Norwegian.
"Lifting up Lingít at the Séet Ká Festival in Petersburg" by Angela Denning, February 19, 2022. KTOO.org.
The Haines Sheldon Museum will feature a new exhibit of Lingít miniatures. It will showcase not only the artistic works but also stories of Lingít people forced to adapt to the rapidly changing times of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
The Lingít miniatures come from the museum’s 23,000 item collection. It includes small-scale items like totem poles, canoes and dolls, which were popular as children’s toys. Items were both artistic and practical, says museum collections coordinator Zachary James.
“Small spiritual figures, kind of talisman-like objects, amulets, rings,” James said. “And then halibut hooks too.”
"Haines Sheldon Museum to open Lingít miniature exhibit in March, showcasing art and history of resilience" by Corinne Smith,
Bunnell Street Arts Center is offering two upcoming Inspiration and Adaptation Artist Talks.
Winter Marshall Allen and Ted Carter March 15, 5 pm
Homer-based teachers, Winter Marshall Allen and Ted Carter share artistic resources and new children’s literature addressing racial equity and inclusion, and other creative ways you can help build a more safe and just global community.
Berith Stennabb March 28, 10 am
How do we connect across geographies, languages and cultures today? Swedish Artist in residence, Berith Stennabb, presents her “meetings” project and her current installation at Bunnell. Berith is part of a two year residency exchange between Bunnell and Skovde Museum.
The Alutiiq Museum seeks contemporary works of visual art to add to its collections with support from the Rasmuson Art Acquisition Fund.
Artists living in Alaska are invited to suggest works made within the past 5 years. The artwork must support the museum's mission to preserve and share the heritage and living culture of the Alutiiq people and meet the museum's guidelines for purchasing contemporary works of art. The museum is particularly interested in purchasing clothing, skin sewing, and beadwork inspired by Alutiiq traditions.
The Chena Tool Library has a new home. The organization, which lends tools for do-it-yourself projects, is moving to a Quonset hut at 1917 Lillian St., off 19th Avenue and Peger Road. The new location provides three times the size of the unheated connex it previously occupied.
"Chena Tool Library has a new home" by Kris Capps, February 26, 2022. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Anchorage Public Library has partnered with Science Friday to bring the Sci Fri Book Club to science and reading enthusiasts.
The SciFri Book Club is a program created by Science Friday to bring people together around all things science reading – anything from sci-fi short stories to nonfiction science books to science articles from various publications to science-y poetry!
APL is offering book club meetings on Zoom, plus the chance to listen in as Science Friday episodes are recorded and possibly ask questions.
This episode of the SAPIENS podcast takes listeners behind the scenes in museums to explore how Black and Indigenous curators are re-imagining what their collections and exhibitions can do to change minds and transform hearts.
Hstory is taught in all kinds of ways—through textbooks, movies, and … museums. In this episode, museum curators challenge the status quo and connect their ancestry to advance how history is told in cultural institutions.
One of the guests is curator and professor Dr. Sven Haakanson Jr. (Sugpiaq) from Old Harbor, Alaska.
Taken every 10 years since 1790, the United States census provides a snapshot of the nation's population. Because of a 72-year restriction on access to the records, the most recent census year currently available is 1940.
On April 1, 2022, the 1950 Census will be released.
The National Archives is offering a special Genealogy Series focused on the 1950 Census. The series will provide family history research tools for all skill levels along with a general overview to specific topics. Program sessions will take place in March, April, and May and will be available later on the National Archives YouTube Channel.
Freedom on the Move is a collaborative project compiling thousands of stories of resistance that have never been accessible in one place.
With the advent of newspapers in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives. Additionally, jailers posted ads describing people they had apprehended in search of the enslavers who claimed the fugitives as property.
Created to control the movement of enslaved people, the ads ultimately preserved the details of individual lives--their personality, appearance, and life story. Taken collectively, the ads constitute a detailed, concise, and rare source of information about the experiences of enslaved people.
After initial curation, the ads become available for crowdsourcing. The crowdsourcing process populates a full-text transcription and additional searchable metadata within the database.
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