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Unangam Adaan Maqam Malganangin
Unangam Adaan Maqam Malganangin is an online repository of Unangan cultural and historical information and documents.
Ella Kashevarof Speaking Unangam Tunuu 1996
Elekonida “Ella” Kashevarof speaking sentences in Unangam Tunuu. This recording was made by the UCLA Phonetics Lab on May 8, 1996. More audios available at
George Rukovishnikoff Speaking Unangam Tunuu
George “Ruk” shares some of his daily routine in Unangam Tunuu. This audio was done by the UCLA Phonetics Lab on May 6, 1996. More
Andronik Kashevarof Speaking Unangam Tunuu 1996
Andronik Kashevarof speaking sentences in Unangam Tunuu. This recording was made by the UCLA Phonetics Lab on May 7, 1996. More audios available at http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Lan…
Marva Melovidov Speaking Unangam Tunuu
Marva Melovidov speaking sentences in Unangam Tunuu. This audio was done by the UCLA Phonetics Lab on May 6, 1996. More audios available at http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Lan…
Gregory Fratis Sr. 1996 Short Story
Gregory Fratis Sr. telling a personal short story in Unangam Tunuu. This audio was done by the UCLA Phonetics Lab on May 4, 1996. More
Christmas Liturgy Gospel 1968
Read by Reader/Choir Director Iliodor “Eddie” MerculieffPhoto credit: Iliodor Henry Kozloff Matthew 2:1-12 1. I’isuusax̂ Txin agukuĝaan Iyud̲iiyam Vifliyiimagan ilaan Hiruud̲ax̂ tanamaguuĝugan aslagaan; I’irusaliimam hadan
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,
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
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
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
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.