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Photo courtesy Merrill Collection, Sitka National Historical Park
THE MAGA ZINE OF THE AL ASK A HUMANITIES FORUM
These students of the Sheldon Jackson School in Sitka helped build the yacht Princeton Hall in 1941. The vessel was used for missionary work and student transportation. The photo is among artifacts collected for Voices of Sheldon Jackson, a history exhibit in Sitka supported by a Forum grant. See page 38.
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Tattoo People Documentary film will depict the revival of traditional Inuit tattooing through the eyes of a practitioner
10 Five Ways of Looking at Ship Creek A group of photographers train their cameras on the Forum’s neighborhood
16 PROGR AM NOTES Leadership Through the Lens Leadership Anchorage marks 20 years of harnessing the humanities to build Alaska communities
18 DONOR PROFILE Quilts and the Humanities Forum donor Eileen Hosey believes the whole is greater than the parts
20 Speaking of Salmon The Forum’s new Alaska Salmon Fellows program encourages dialogue and convergence
26 GR ANT REPORT ‘We Know Full Well the Difficulties’ Alaska Jewish Museum exhibit recounts a fruitless 1939 plan to offer European Jews a refuge in the Last Frontier
32 Look Again People experiencing homelessness in Anchorage share creative visions
34 Community Conversations: Homelessness Three informed perspectives start the conversation; please join it
38 Annual Humanities Grants What to expect from the ten projects receiving major grants in 2017
43 AF TER IMAGE ‘I’m Not Even That Old, You Know?’ Brian Adams photographed Lynden Weyiouanna for his series I AM INUIT ON THE COVER: Greenlandic traditional tattoo artist Maya Sialuk Jacobsen sketched a portrait of Petrine, an elder from Westgreenland. Then Jacobsen added to the drawing the tattooed facial markings Petrine might have had if she had lived at an earlier time. “She has very poor eyesight,” reported Jacobsen, “but her granddaughter could tell her what she would look like with the facial markings.” See page 4.
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