Elder Voices: Vince Pikonganna
![Craggy, grassy island cliff and shoreline, wrapped in mist](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/image-1200x900.jpeg)
Join “Elder Voices” for a special presentation from the KNOM Archive of two interviews with King Island elder Vince Pikonganna. Interviewed in both 2003 and 2013, Vince shares his story and his hope for future generations.
In Unalakleet, BSSD Students Learn to Lead
![Students at the 2017 BSSD Youth Leaders retreat sit in a circle on the floor of the Unalakleet school gym to tell stories.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_1086-2-1200x900.jpg)
Students from around the Bering Strait School District gathered in Unalakleet for a weekend of workshops, games, storytelling and dancing.
At Wales’ Kingikmiut Festival, Dancing to Heal
![An Alaska Native dance ensemble performs inside a school gymnasium.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Alaska-Native-dance-performance-Kingikmiut-Festival-Wales-2017-e1569369180650-1200x504.jpg)
The Native dance tradition has been revived in Wales and other communities over the past 20 years, after decades of cultural suppression by colonial forces. Today, as one elder put it, “coming here makes us feel whole.”