The Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak has just received a grant to begin an Alutiiq language program for preschool-aged children. Candace Branson is the tribe’s Alutiiq heritage educator and says last week ...

A group of preschoolers sings Itsy Bitsy Spider in Alutiiq at the Alutiingcut Childcare Center in Kodiak, Alaska on September 15, 2022. (Valerie Kern, Alaska Public Media). Half of the people whose ...

began documenting the area's native language about four years ago. As part of the program, fluent elders and "semi-fluent" speakers are brought in to speak the language while staff members make ...

The Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska has a unique offering this holiday season: Two original Alutiiq winter songs and one very popular Austrian Christmas Carol translated from English into the Native ...

At the St. Herman Russian Orthodox Seminary on Kodiak Island, a yellowed and worn hand-written book dating to the early 1900s is being called the "Rosetta Stone" of the Alutiiq language, KMXT reports.

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) - Anchorage has been described as Alaska’s largest village, so it makes sense that it’s become a second home for the native language of the Kodiak archipelago. Beginning in ...

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) – Next semester Kodiak High School students can say “cama’I” to an Alutiiq language program – the first since the early 1990s.”The idea to have an Alutiiq language class at the ...

Staples native Michael Bach will speak on Alutiiq language and culture revitalization efforts from Southern Alaska at the next Cultural Thursday scheduled at noon, Dec. 4, in the Chalberg Theater at ...

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Thirteen artists worked to replicate 147-year-old Alutiiq ceremonial garments as part of the Pinguat — Beads project funded by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. The event Nov. 7 ...

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) - Nick Alokli spent his childhood in Ahkiok playing laptuuk - the Alutiiq version of baseball. Now 78, Alokli’s playing days have passed, but his passion for the sport is still ...

KODIAK, Alaska — Anchorage has been described as Alaska's largest village, so it makes sense that it's become a second home for the native language of the Kodiak archipelago. Beginning in September, a ...