Posts Tagged ‘Siberian Yupik’
Unalakleet Psychologist Receives National Award for Work in Rural Psychology
Ray Michael Droby was awarded the 2017 Excellence in Rural Psychology Award from the APA, for his more than 20 years of providing mental health services in Nome and the Bering Strait region.
Read MoreElder Voices: Nancy Walunga
“It’s important to let them know who you are, where you are from, your language. When you get older you will see how important it is. Our history.” …
Read MoreElder Voices: Harriet Penayah, Part One
This episode is the first of a three-part series featuring Yupik elder Harriet Penayah. When Harriet Penayah was growing up in Savoonga in the 1930s, the Alaska native village looked much the same as it does today. “No igloos,” she says, “no sod houses.” Just wooden-frame homes clustered above the black sandy beach. But, she says,…
Read MoreConversations in rural Alaska
A regular part of our mission is to send our hardworking volunteers to the rural, isolated villages in our listening area, especially when events rally those communities together around a particular cause. Last month, volunteers Eva DeLappe and Lucus Keppel visited one of the communities closest to KNOM: Teller, a village on the coast of…
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