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Unangam Adaan Maqam Malganangin
Unangam Adaan Maqam Malganangin is an online repository of Unangan cultural and historical information and documents.

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







Moses Dirks 2023 Story Visit – Atkans in the Pribilofs
Moses shares about how men from Atka would go to St. Paul and St. George to work in the commercial fur seal harvesting in summers







Moses Dirks 2023 Story Visit – Experience Working Between St. Paul and St. George
Upon being asked the similarities and differences in Unangam Tunuu spoken in St. George and St. Paul at the time of his visits in the







Moses Dirks 2023 Story Visit – Working with Qawalangim Tunuu/Beginnings of Classes in Schools
Moses shares of working with Nick Galaktionoff in Unalaska getting Qawalangim Tunuu language to be used in classrooms. Difficulties of identifying words used in each







Moses Dirks 2023 Story Visit – Early Work in Unangax̂ Communities
Moses shares of starting work with Knut Bergsland, traveling to communities throughout the Unangax̂ region to check older data and collect new data to put







Moses Dirks 2023 Story Visit – Origins and Early Life
Moses Qagidax̂ Dirks introduces himself and gives insight of how much Unangam Tunuu of the Niiĝuĝim dialect was spoken in Atka while he was growing







Gregory Fratis Sr. 2022 Story Visits – Local Foods
The different kinds of local foods eaten and the importance of them to our health


WW2 Evacuation of St. Paul Island by Mary Bourdukofsky
Using Unangam Tunuu, Mary Bourdukofsky of St. Paul Island gives an account of her experiences during the evacuation of St. Paul, St. George and communities



Father Michael Interviews – Tape 1 Side A
Lestenkof, Michael February to May 1994 Tape 1, Side A



Father Michael Interviews – Tape 1 Side B
Lestenkof, Michael February to May 1994 Tape 1, Side B







Gregory Fratis Sr. 2022 Story Visits – Halibut
The excitement of catching halibut and distributing it throughout the village and how it was prepared and eaten.







Gregory Fratis Sr. 2022 Story Visits – Values
Differences and transitions in values from his childhood to now







Gregory Fratis Sr. 2022 Story Visits – Bathing
Bathing in earlier times: from children in pails to elders in steam baths







Gregory Fratis Sr. 2022 Story Visits – Childhood
Life growing up in a house with eight siblings







Gregory Fratis Sr. 2022 Story Visits – Change in Diet
Transition from eating mostly local foods from the land and sea around us to the American diet we still use to this day


Prayer Before Communion
Prichastim Muulitvaa Mangiyux̂takuqing Guuspudax̂ kayux samtakuqing, hinga maagusa |ristusam, Aguuĝum anĝaĝigan Hlax̂ akux̂txin; tunux̂taaĝuĝin agliisagan wa slum adan sakaaĝaqaa, amakun ilin waya itaangix̂ akuqing. Kayux


Genealogy and Census
Pribilof Islands, Alaska: A Historical Account Told Through Illustrated Genealogy and Census Records Excerpt from the Introduction… This book addresses the people of St.