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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 17h

Woohoo!! Huge congrats to @hollyguise.bsky.social and much deserved! My copy is still sitting next to me so I can leaf thru the photos from time to time. It’s such an interesting read!

Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 18h

Can’t believe I’m sharing this- my book #AlaskaNativeResilience: Voices from World War II by @uwapress.uw.edu has received the Athearn Book Prize given annually for a published book on the twentieth-century American West! Quyaana!

#Alaska wartime history #AlaskaNatives
#Alaskasky #historiansky
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Screenshot from the Western history association Instagram page showing book awards including the author Holly Miowak Guise, a Native woman with brown hair and an Inuit ivory necklace, with the caption Robert C Athearn Award for Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II

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Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · Sep 4

Just heard about this (free) talk/book signing in Baltimore in October, and looking forward to it—we're big Seth Rockman ( @sethrockman.bsky.social ) appreciators here! www.mdhistory.org/calendar/pla...

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery with Author Seth Rockman – Maryland Center for History and Culture

Author Seth Rockman presents his new Pulitzer Prize-finalist publication, Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. Examining producers and consumers linked in economic and moral relat...

www.mdhistory.org

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 19h

WOW!! You are so talented!!

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 23h

Consider helping! alaskacf.org/western-alas...

Western Alaska Communities Unite to Establish Disaster Response Fund Following Recent Storms - Alaska Community Foundation

In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska’s western coast, local …

alaskacf.org

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 23h

One dead, one missing. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Woman found dead, dozens rescued and over 1,000 displaced after storm devastates Western Alaska

Winds over 100 mph and record tidal surges pounded the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday as the remnants of Typhoon Halong inundated some Bering Sea coast communities.

www.adn.com

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 1d

That’s bad.

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

www.ktoo.org

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 1d

Quyana for all the interest in the disaster in NW Alaska. Visit the website for @alaskacf.bsky.social to get more information on how to help.

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 1d

Got super active this weekend and overdid. Woke up this morning and the arthritis was letting me know. Gave myself permission to rest on this Indigenous Peoples Day. FOMO!

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 1d

Too soon! 😜

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 1d

Was it a man? They are so emotional.

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 1d

ii!

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Anchorage fam! #AlaskaSky

Lyndon Air Cargo is sending planes to Anchorage to collect donations for the impact villages!

Details to follow

But if you would be so kind to think of donating water, food, clothing, supplies, pet food, etc., I know everyone would greatly appreciate it 🫶🏼

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 1d

alaskacf.org/western-alas...

Western Alaska Communities Unite to Establish Disaster Response Fund Following Recent Storms - Alaska Community Foundation

In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska’s western coast, local …

alaskacf.org

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 1d

More than 30 rescued and three still unaccounted for as Typhoon Halong hits NE Alaska coast. This Indigenous Peoples Day, consider donating to Alaska Community Foundation W Alaska Disaster Relief Fund. apnews.com/article/alas...

An Inupiaq auntie on the ice in Kotzebue smiling. Help our relatives recover from the storm.

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Azie Dungey @aziedungey.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!
I present to you, my annual post

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Angela 🦭 ❄️ @gingela.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so tired of air conditioning.

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

omg, guys… the western alaska villages are getting hit hard. this is worse than merbok

it’s a helpless feeling watching watching these villages cry out for help on social media. where is the national guard??

many of these villages have kids here in sitka at edgecumbe

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

someone in a kipnuk facebook group screen recorded all the pleas for help in the community due to the disaster flooding

hopefully the alaska national guard will make it out there soon