RVN - Alaskan Spirit | Issue 6 | Digital Edition

THE MAGAZINE OF RAVN AIR GROUP AND RURAL ALASKA

MARCH 2019

BETHEL’S CAMA-I

Dance Through the Ages

YUKON DELTA Land of the Yup’ik

MARCH MADNESS Alaska basketball fever

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March through May

“What Why How We Eat” Exhibition Runs through January 2020 Anchorage Museum

From fish and fiddleheads to salmonberries and Spam, what gets plated in Alaska feeds our collective identity as much as it does our individual palates.

The newest exhibition—which opened in late February— tells the changing story of food culture in Alaska, from the subsistence whale hunt in Point Hope to the Halal market in Anchorage, through filmed interviews, art installations, utensils, tools, recipes and food.

Empty Bowl Project March 9 Dena’ina Convention Center, Anchorage

This year’s 25th annual event also marks Bean’s Café’s 40th Birthday.

Local artists create and donate more than 1,400 bowls for the event, which offers attendees unlimited homemade soup, cornbread and beverages, and their choice of a bowl to take home. The goal is to raise more than $100,000 and is the largest annual fundraiser for Bean’s Cafe and The Children’s Lunchbox. www.anchorage.net

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ASAA State Basketball Tournaments (1A) March 13-16 (2A) March 14-16 (3A/4A) March 21-23 Alaska Airlines Center, Anchorage

Alaska’s best boys and girls high school basketball teams gather on the hardwood to crown multiple new champions during March Madness Alaska. See more about the event in this issue and what basketball means to the entire state of Alaska. Visit the ASAA website for tournament information, participating teams and brackets, as well as more information about planning a trip to catch all the exciting action. www.ASAA.org

20th Alaska Aviation Museum Hall of Fame Gala

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Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament March 23 Homer

This one-day extravaganza is among the highlights of Alaska’s fishing tournaments. The tournament centering on the waters of Kachemak Bay attracted more than 1,000 anglers and nearly 400 boats last year in pursuit of more than $160,000 in cash and prizes. There also are additional opportunities for side bets with prizes offered every hour of the tournament. All anglers must complete a tournament entry form before fishing, in addition to having a 2019 Alaska Department of Fish and Game fishing license and a valid king salmon stamp. www.homeralaska.org/winter-king-salmon-tournament

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What’s Happening in Ravn Country

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Celebrating the men and women who shaped Alaska’s aviation history, the Alaska Aviation Museum recognizes the accomplishments of these brave pilots and entrepreneurs who did so much to establish today’s Alaska. This year honoring Jim Jansen - Lifetime Achievement; Hans Roald Amundsen - Aviation Entrepreneur; and Leon “Babe” Alsworth - Pathway and Explorer Pilot.

For 61 years Dillingham has been celebrating one of the most unique community gatherings in Alaska. Four days of pageantry, art, games, food, family fun and a celebration of life in Bristol Bay as well as the nearing end of winter.

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Beaver Round-Up Dillingham March 20-24

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as well as numerous other resident species. With more than 100 events to choose from, there’s something for everyone.

Chugach Fat Bike Bash April 5-7 Valdez

The fourth annual event features a little something for everyone, from a fun-loving costumed fatty parade to a cross-country race that is the only one in the world that takes riders over icebergs and through glaciers. The World Fat Free Downhill Championships are held on steep slopes of the Chugach Range that legendary extreme skiers once pioneered. valdezadventurealliance.com/ fat

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Senior NYO Games Alaska April 25-27 Alaska Airlines Center, Anchorage

Seward Mermaid Festival

More than 500 athletes from across Alaska compete in the annual Senior NYO Games. The Games celebrates Alaska’s rich diversity and is open to students of all backgrounds from grades 7-12. Athletic events include the Kneel Jump, Wrist Carry, Eskimo Stick Pull, Scissor Broad Jump, One-Hand Reach, Two-Foot High Kick, Indian Stick Pull, One-Foot High Kick, Alaskan High Kick and Seal Hop. Activities include musical and dance performances, the Pilot Bread Recipe Contest and the Opportunities Expo featuring businesses to help prepare young athletes for future success.

The games are organized by Cook Inlet Tribal Council and supported by numerous companies and organizations throughout the state.

Valdez Fly-In and Air Show May 10-12 Pioneer Field, Valdez

The largest gathering, competition and show of iconic Alaska aircraft, the Fly-In allows the best of Alaska’s bush pilots to show off their flying skills.

This includes landing and taking off in just a few feet. Hundreds of pilots and thousands of spectators participate.

More information at ValdezFlyIn.com. www.kachemakshorebird.org

May 17-19

The festival was created by local business owners and residents, and in partnership with the Seward Harbor Opening Weekend, to celebrate rejuvenation, to develop a creative community impact and encourage local entrepreneurship. The mermaid theme was chosen to represent the community’s symbiotic relationship with the seas, oceans and waterways.

The family friendly event includes vendors, food trucks, music and more. www.sewardmermaidfestival. com

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Spring Carnival at Alyeska

Celebrate the end of ski season and the perfect combination of sun and snow at Alyeska Resort during the 42nd annual Spring Carnival. The weekend includes the Slush Cup, in which 50 competitors will ski or ride down the mountain and try to make it across a 90-foot pond for a chance to win a 2019-20 season pass. There also is the Idiots Swim, Dummy Downhill, Bike Race and Tug o’War— all free events—in addition to nightly concerts. www.alyeskaresort.com/ events/festivals/ spring-carnival-slush-cup

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April 12-14 Girdwood

Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival May 9-12 Homer

Alaska’s largest wildlife viewing festival honors the return of spring and the breathtaking migration of shorebirds through Kachemak Bay. The Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges and Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, invite you to attend the 27th annual festival. Homer’s seaside setting is perfect for spotting more than 130 migratory bird species,

Anchorage Market May 11 – September 8 Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Kodiak Crab Festival

Whether you’re shopping for fresh produce, exotic goods from around the world, or Alaskan souvenirs, you’ll find it at “Alaska’s Largest Open-Air Market.” Located in the heart of downtown, the market consists of more than 300 vendors on 2 acres.

The Anchorage Market & Festival is a great place to bring family, friends and visiting tourists. It offers free and lively entertainment, great food, and a fun and safe atmosphere.

The festival is a time for the community to celebrate its abundant resources from the sea and the summer season. This five-day event held each year during Memorial Day weekend includes a variety of family friendly activities. The event also showcases local businesses and nonprofits with an influx of both local and off-island visitors.

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Cama-i Dance Festival celebrates Alaska Native culture ‘Together We Dance as One’ is theme of 2019 event Story by Erin Kirkland / Photos by John Wallace Each March, nearly 5,000 people make their way to Bethel for an annual tradition that celebrates storytelling through song and dance. The Cama-i Dance Festival, taking place March 29-31, may only operate for three days at Bethel High School, but its roots run thousands of years deep for this community of just over 6,000 residents. A fixture of Bethel since 1989, its ebb and flow pulses through the city, teaching without words in a place that has sometimes struggled to find peace within itself.

Bethel, the largest center within the expansive Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta

area, serves as hub to more than 50 western Alaska villages that rely on the city for transportation, medical care, education and supplies. But cultural connections are a vital component of maintaining one’s well-being, Cama-i festival organizer Linda Curda said. That’s especially true within the realm of singing, dancing and drumming.

After missionaries settled the YK Delta in the late 1800s, a hush was placed upon traditional Native Alaskan dancing and drumming, Curda said, due to beliefs by the new arrivals that it was an evil activity.

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of Christianity was so strong that many parents declined to pass along traditions including dancing to their children, thus denying an entire generation the knowledge of their elders. A spiritual connection had been severed, and along with it, the deeply ingrained cultural and historical ideals passed down for millennia.

“That influence took years to reteach what used to be a cultural cornerstone of life on the Delta,” Curda said. “Cama-i has become a springboard for villages and groups who have reintroduced dancing into their lives.” continued on next page

Dancers at the Cama-i Dance Festival are celebrating an Alaska heritage going back thousands of years.

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We share freely, knowing that what we share will come back to us in one form or another,” she said.

For Fredericks, the story behind the qaspeq is as important as the qaspeq itself.

Fredericks grew up Eskimo dancing.

“As a little girl when I danced, my maternal grandmother really took pride in my dancing and she made me a qaspeq every time we had a dance festival or potlatch,” she said.

That meant a new qaspeq every month or two and that translates into “totes of qaspeqs,” which Fredericks’ daughter wears today.

“When I think about it now, I was so rich. I just think of the depths of love my grandma had for me. And that’s my story.

Sharing our culture through our qaspeqs is important, but it’s also our responsibility to share our stories,” she said.

Qaspeq Fridays are important for other reasons, Fredericks said.

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“For me, a huge part of my well-being is my identity and being proud of who I am as a Yup’ik woman. When we’re working in a place that encourages us to wear clothing that reflects who we are, that’s really significant,” she said.

Lori Evans is former publisher of The Homer News and editor of The Peninsula Clarion.

About AVCP The Association of Village Council Presidents is a regional nonprofit tribal consortium made up of the 56 federally recognized tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The area encompasses approximately 6.5 million acres, or 55,000 square miles, in Southwest Alaska. The organization has 373 employees, of which 96.7 percent are Alaska Native; 155 employees are based in Bethel with the rest spread throughout the 56 tribes in the YK Delta. For examples of Qaspeq Friday photos, see #TGIQF on AVCP’s social media, @AVCPAlaska.

AVCP Director of Cultural and Environmental Sciences, Steve Street, wears a qaspeq made for his son’s wedding, by his wife, Julia Street, who also works at AVCP in the Healthy Families Department. The design communicates the experience of their great great grandfather who once saw a hand raised up out of the water while he was hunting.

He threw his harpoon through the hole in the hand and the hand returned into the water. When the hand reappeared, it had become a seal.

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Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge a haven for those seeking remote adventure

By Clark Fair

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Photo by Brad Benter, USFWS

Background photo of the Kisaralik River in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge by Kristine Sowl, USFWS

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Fresh powder at Alyeska provides unforgettable experiences Girdwood home to variety of family fun during the winter

By P.M. Fadden Photos by P.M. Fadden

To snow faithful, the enormity of the Last Frontier’s wild topography is a mainstay atop “must ski” lists. Its iconography

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Locally grown

Meyers family revolutionizing Y-K fresh produce

By Tim Bradner

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‘Who I Am Is Where I Am From’ Carol Richards profiled Chevak carver Earl Atchak through a partnership between Rasmuson Foundation and 49 Writers, a literary nonprofit. More profiles by Alaska writers about other Alaska artists—all recipients of the Foundation’s Individual Artist Awards—can be found at https://rasmuson.org/arts/individual-artist-awards/49writers/.

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Earl Atchak of Chevak is a carver of Cup’ik descent.

At a young age, he learned wood carving at his school’s heritage program and was drawn to the spiritual side of the craft. He stays true to the old ways, never buys wood, and follows what the wood shows him.

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Photos of artwork courtesy of Earl Atchak.

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rctic Chiropractic Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy is an Alaskan company with an “authentically Alaskan” origin.

Dr. Walter Campbell, a lifelong Alaskan, founded Arctic Chiropractic in 2005 to offer chiropractic services to underserved, rural areas where services were greatly needed. The company has gone from a one man itinerant clinic, servicing a few locations in rural Alaska, to a network of 23 chiropractic clinics and 10 physical therapy clinics, spanning the state from Utqiaġvik (Barrow) to Dutch Harbor, Nome to Ketchikan, and most places in between.

Dr. Campbell was born in Fairbanks, raised in Utqiaġvik, and now resides in Palmer. Growing up in Utqiaġvik, he was acutely aware of the needs of rural Alaskans and how difficult it can be to receive quality healthcare.

“From early on, I knew the next step in advancing chiropractic healthcare in Alaska was to bring it to the areas in Alaska that needed it most and had little access to it,” Dr. Campbell says.

“So we have been able to do that, and it’s been the most rewarding aspect of my career. We’ve brought a lot to places that didn’t have many, if any options before. I’m also very proud of our larger clinics in the bigger cities and towns, where we offer many treatment options

and expertise for health and wellness, and usually more than one location, so patients can choose the clinic most convenient for them.”

“I’ve been amazingly fortunate to partner with great doctors along the way: Doctors Ed Foster, Rob Lewis, Dwayne Engelbrecht, Chris Twiford, Lew Pagel, Miranda Montejo, James Chavis, and Jamie McNabb, to name a few. They, and the communities both large and small across the state, who have welcomed us, as well as the hard working staff and therapists on the Arctic team, are why we are in so many Alaskan communities today. We provide a service and we do it well, but without them there would be no Arctic.”

“Most of our clinics are unique as well, in that they are owner-operated.

We have built a clinic network that is truly a team of doctors and professionals who share the vision of health and wellness for all of Alaska.”

Arctic’s commitment to service doesn’t just extend into healthcare— there are several veterans among the doctors and staff of Arctic, including Dr. Walter Campbell (USMC), Dr. Justin Petersen of the Utqiaġvik and Eagle River offices (USMC), Dr. Laura Homaki of the Unalaska and Dutch Harbor clinics (Army), and Dr. Woody Waldroup, formerly of the Dillingham and Eagle River clinics (Navy).

Arctic clinics offer a multi-disciplinary approach, with chiropractic and physical therapy at most locations and other practitioners and therapists, employing massage, deep tissue, naturopathic, and other conservative care treatments to accomplish the best outcomes for each and every patient.

“If you are in pain with stiff, sore joints, muscles, headaches, neck aches, back aches, or you have been injured or have limited range of motion, more than likely we can help. The help we offer goes after the cause of your pain or lack of mobility—and doesn’t just treat the symptom. Our primary focus is working with the body to allow it to repair, strengthen, and heal itself. We offer more lasting solutions, not just to get you better, but to get you well.”

“Arctic is blessed. This company owes its growth and success to the communities that welcomed us in, the patients who came to us in their time of need, and the many, many people who have worked long and hard to provide the quality care that we strive for,” says Dr. Campbell. “What we have been able to do is a testament to the skill, ethic, love, and goodwill of all those people. That we are able to help the people we help, in all the cities and towns in this state that we love, is as satisfying and rewarding as it gets.”

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PenAir and Ravn FAQ Frequently Asked Questions Q: Will there be any changes to Penair or Ravn schedules or markets? (! ;OLYL HYL J\YYLU[S` UV WSHUULK JOHUNLZ [V HU` 7LU(PY VY 9H]U ZJOLK\SLZ VY THYRL[ KLZ[PUH[PVUZ (Z ^L KV YLN\SHYS` ^L YL]PL^ ZJOLK\SLZ HUK THYRL[ KLZ[PUH[PVUZ [V KL[LYTPUL OV^ ^L JHU ILZ[ ZLY]L V\Y J\Z[VTLYZ HUK [OL JVTT\UP[PLZ 0M HU` JOHUNLZ KV VJJ\Y HZ IV[O 7LU(PY HUK 9H]U OH]L HS^H`Z KVUL ^L ^PSS JVTT\UPJH[L ^P[O `V\ [V THRL Z\YL `V\ HYL RLW[ PUMVYTLK VM HU` ZLY]PJL JOHUNLZ Q: Will airfares increase? (! )V[O 7LU(PY HUK 9H]U ^PSS JVU[PU\L [V WYV]PKL J\Z[VTLYZ L_JLW[PVUHS ]HS\L 8! >PSS 9H]U (SHZRH»Z -S`(^H` 9L^HYKZ MYLX\LU[ Ã&#x2026;`LY program change? (! 5V ^L \UKLYZ[HUK OV^ T\JO V\Y J\Z[VTLYZ ]HS\L V\Y MYLX\LU[ Ã&#x2026;`LY WYVNYHT 0[ ^PSS YLTHPU H YVI\Z[ WYVNYHT [OH[ YL^HYKZ [OVZL ^OV JVU[PU\L [V JOVVZL [V Ã&#x2026;` ^P[O \Z Q: What does this mean for Ravn customers? (! >P[O 7LU(PY QVPUPUN 9H]U (PY .YV\W J\Z[VTLYZ VM V\Y [^V HPYSPULZ ^PSS UV^ IL HISL [V Ã&#x2026;` [V TVYL KLZ[PUH[PVUZ PU (SHZRH

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Alaskan Spirit Magazine Telling the stories of rural Alaska and the communities we serve.

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