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 together the Unangam Tunuu dictionary.
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 up. He shares of meeting speakers of Qawalangim dialect at Mt. Edgecumbe High School, youth from St. Paul and St. George, and learning some words used in their dialect.
Gregory Fratis Sr. 2022 Story Visits – Local Foods
The different kinds of local foods eaten and the importance of them to our health
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
Gregory communicates on his differences and transitions in values from his childhood to the present.
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 – 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
Gregory Fratis Sr. 2022 Story Visits – Childhood
Gregory Fratis Sr. communicates about his life growing up in a house with eight siblings.
Father Michael Interviews – Tape 1 Side B
Lestenkof, Michael February to May 1994 Tape 1, Side B Sealers’ Club [continued], Hooverson. Managing selves-community. Work for wages instead of ‘reservation.’ After evacuation. Amusement. Civic Committee. Hobbies. Benson, Dan. Which family could take which house. House trade by family size. Merculiefs-Angelina, Father Paul, Betty, Dan Benson. Brick house. Remodeling House: Anatoly Lekanof house that […]
Father Michael Interviews – Tape 1 Side A
Lestenkof, Michael February to May 1994 Tape 1, Side A Starring, SPI: Starosta John Misikin: Flag, Cloth ceiling, Porfiry Pankov- singing. Starring, SGI: Paul Swetzof, (?Ignaty), Anatoly Lekanof. Songs- Aleut vs. Slavonic. Starring days; 13 January. UT: ‘Today, people would say…’ Starring, description. Masking-history, description, meaning. King Herod. Infant Jesus. Song, UT: Maskaratam Talaĝii Masking, […]