Arctic Shaman’s Seance
Alaska, FictionThe snow fell quietly, covering the settlement in a thick white blanket. The shaman had told Okwana she’d recognize the […]
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Kotzebue(ty) in Alaska
Alaska, Blog, Features, ArticlesIt was the 4th of July and we were in the Iñupiat town of Kotzebue, the largest community in Northwest Alaska. Kotzebue is on the Chukchi Sea north of the Bering Sea and opposite Russia, some 50 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Before the Europeans came it was a major Arctic trading port between the Russians and the Iñupiat Eskimos who traded in fur, skins and seal-oil, and later in gold. Trade increased with the arrival of the whale boats and missionaries.
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A Whale of a Time
Alaska, Blog, Features, ArticlesBarrow Whaling Festival: the Nalukataq The fog stretched out like a grey pall beneath us. Visibility was nil; we were
Whaling, ancient and modern
Alaska, Blog, Features, ArticlesMany are familiar with paintings and sketches of men in open boats on high waves hurling harpoons at giant whales.
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An Orthodox Tlingit in Alaska
Alaska, Blog, Features, ArticlesWe were sitting on the steps of an orthodox church, its gold-tipped dome shimmering like a glorious crown in the
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Master Mountain, Denali, Alaska
Alaska, PoetryMaster mountain sighs his enormity weeps in small gullies at the weight he holds, despairs of immensity, too big to
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Jaeger Bird, Barrow, Alaska
Alaska, PoetryHe flies in ribbons like my hair undone
loosely in this arctic breeze
like a kite in the wind his long tail trailing
above melting icefloe, along costal freeze
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Cranes, Cook Inlet, Alaska
Alaska, PoetryLike a queen’s downy bed fluffed up for the loving featherlace wings drifting aloft they glide with the wind two
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Loon (on Lake Denise, Soldotna, Alaska)
Alaska, PoetryIt’s the call over still water echoing round the bay of my mind some yearning, undefined A loon owns this
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Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
Alaska, PoetryThis crack in your iceflesh thawing like a crease in the mouth of your womb you are melting in sighs
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Clamming in Ninilchik, Alaska
Alaska, PoetryRazor clams here are the size of babies’ hands opened up to catch the midnight sun. They roll in with
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