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Audio-Visual Resource List
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What's here: Streaming Video - Subsistence in Northwest Alaska, ANCSA videos, Biographies, Storytelling; Streaming Audio - Storytelling, Native language learning and teaching materials, Music

Streaming Video

Northwest Alaska

Through the efforts of then Senator Frank Ferguson and Representative Al Adams, the Northwest Arctic School District (now Northwest Arctic Borough School District) was provided with funds to create a television production and a curriculum development center. The goal was to provide curriculum allowing students in Northwest Alaska to learn about themselves, the communities they were a part of, and connections to the larger world in northwest Alaska. It was all new and untried. Don Rinker, Bob Walker, Marley Gregg, Dan Houseberg, Dan Synder, Nellie Moore and many others worked to make the television reflect and illustrate the unique place and people of northwest Alaska.

At Summer Camp -- subsistence living based on the lives of the Jones family at that time.

Curriculum-Based Links

Curriculum Unit Plan: Impact of ANCSA in the Arctic Slope Taking Control: Fact or Fiction?

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Cultural Orientation Video Part 1-"Intro and ANCSA"-
In this presentation Paul Ongtooguk speaks about rights of ownership, property and the necessity and function of ANCSA for Alaskan Natives. Published by Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and Syntax productions, 1999.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Teacher's Guide
This Teacher's Guide was developed in 1986 in Kotzebue by Martin Laster, Paul Ongtooguk, and Bob Walker with the Northwest Arctic Borough School District. The series was designed to accompany a series of five videotapes and a collection of Student Readings on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

Part 1 History of the Act (22 min.) [28k] [56k]
Part 2 Overview of the Act (16 minutes) [28k] [56k]
Part 3 Specific Provisions (16 minutes) [28k] [56k]
Part 4 Impacts of ANCSA (16 minutes) [28k] [56k]
Part 5 Future Issues and Options (30 minutes) [56k]

ANCSA- "Caught In The Act"
This is a six-part series focused on the initiatives of the Alaska Natives Claims Settlement Act. The series is produced and directed by Carroll Hodge and Ron Eagle and copyrighted by the Alaska Department of Education, 1987.

Common Ground-Produced and directed by Carroll Hodge, Alaska Department of Education, 1987

Losing Ground-Produced and directed by Carroll Hodge, Alaska Department of Education, 1987

The Struggle-Produced and directed by Carroll Hodge, Alaska Department of Education, 1987

Plain and Simple-Produced and directed by Ron Eagle, Alaska Department of Education, 1987

Beyond the Bottom Line-Produced and directed by Ron Eagle, Alaska Department of Education, 1987

Land At Risk-Produced and directed by Ron Eagle, Alaska Department of Education, 1987

ANCSA- Inquiry #5 "Native Claims: An International Perspective"
This is a selection from a meeting of Native representatives from around the world which took place in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1984. Produced by IPTV, Inc./UAITS. The selection shows Native speakers from Australia, Norway and Greenland discussing the issues and concerns their people face.(59:02 minutes)

ANCSA- Inquiry "A Question of Sovereignty"
In 1991 people from all over the U.S. gathered in Anchorage for a Alaska Native Review Committee meeting to discuss the meaning and conditions of sovereignty as they apply to Native people of our country. Produced by Gary Williams jointly for the University of Alaska, Instructional Telecommunications Services and Independent Public Television Inc., 1991.

Biographies

Portraits of Leadership- Produced by the Northwest Arctic Borough School District, 1989. Two history-based biographies/documentaries.

Part one: Chief Katlian (12.5 minutes)
Part two: Howard Rock (16 minutes)

"Hands, Head, and Health" A documentary of he story of Della Keats, renowned Alaska Native healer and teacher, illustrates preservation of the heritage of her people, and the importance of health and happiness in community and life.

Storytelling

Link to Alaska Native Knowledge Network Video Index Page

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Streaming Audio

Reading, Writing and Speaking the Tlingit Language
Dog Point Fish Camp 2000 - A Two-Disc Study CD Set containing recordings on reading and writing the Tlingit Language produced by Roby Littlefied at the Dog Point Fish Camp with a grant from the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative, Elders at Culture Camp. It is intended to help the beginning student and the fluent speaker to learn and read the Tlingit language. Volume 1: Tlingit Language, and Volume 2: Tlingit Lullabies, copyright 1998.

KNBA 90.3's Stories of Our People - Alaska Native narratives and storytelling by people from across Alaska.

Chevak Audio Materials Index - Click here to hear any of these six stories

1 - The First Ancestor Story

2 - Amellrutaq

3 - The boy who went with the seals

4 - "Lluatutun!" (The mouse who said "For good reason!")

5 - Tangrrualria Ugnaraq

6 - Qup'anaa

Kaaka-gguaq Cauyalriitqaa (Listen to the Drumbeat). Music and lyrics by John Pingayak. Arranged and performed by Pamyua.

Maniilaq is the name of a man that is held in very high regard by the older Iñupiat Eskimos of the Northwest Arctic. He was more commonly known as Maniilauraq, and to some of the Elders in the area, he was an Eskimo prophet. They speak of him with reverence and admiration. Many believe him and in the fulfillment of his prophecies in this day and age... Audio in Iñupiaq.

The Iñupiaq Phrasebook is a series of interactive screens where you can listen to an Inupiaq speaker pronounce the words and phrases and click to see the English translation.

Health (from T imeline)

1918 AV Clip National Public Radio interviews Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger, of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, about a breakthrough into the cause of deadly flu outbreaks. Researchers at the institute have recently recovered genetic material from the deadly 1918 flu pandemic, which killed more than 20 million people worldwide. Dr. Taubenberger says that the genetic material, which was taken from a victim's corpse in Alaska, may provide clues that will prevent a pandemic in the future. Open NPR web site in new window.