Island Times with Jason Merculief (Part 3)
Island Times with Jason Merculief (Part 2)
Island Times with Jason Merculief (Part 1)
Island Times with Zinaida Melovidov
Island Times with Aquilina Lestenkof
Christmas Liturgy 1968 Ss. Peter and Paul Church
Archpriest Michael Lestenkof and then-deacon Paul Merculief January 7, 1968 Photo Credit: Lindsay, John A., Gina Rappaport, and Betty A. Lindsay. 2009. The Pribilof Islands, Alaska – A Guide to Photographs and Illustrations, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS ORR 20.
Moses Dirks 2023 Story Visit – Compiling (cont’d)
Moses shares about the use of wax cylinder recordings made by Waldemar Jochelson, work done by Gordon H. Marsh in Nikolski. More information about the creation of the Aleut Dictionary.
Moses Dirks 2023 Story Visit – Compiling Previously Made Resources
Moses shares about the work compiling the earlier made resources by Waldemar Jochelson, Leonty Sivtsov etc. to transcribe from the previously used Cyrillic-based orthography into Roman text the contemporary generations can read.
Moses Dirks 2023 Story Visit – Collecting to Create Resources
Moses shares about traveling between villages to record speakers and their way of speaking to create books.
Moses Dirks 2023 Story Visit – Qawalangim Tunuu Speaker in Atka
Being asked if he’d worked with Fr. Ishmael Gromoff, Moses shares of the visits Fr. Ishmael would make to Atka for church services and how language spoken would “deepen” to be better understood between speakers of each dialect. He also shares of the beginnings of “The Right Way to Live as an Unangax̂”poster creation, the […]