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Alaskan Eskimo, Tununeremiut
directed by Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012; produced by Andrew Chikoyak, fl. 1972, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1972), 37 mins
Four sequences, filmed over a two-month period, portray aspects of the lives of the people of Tununak, a village on the south-western coast of Alaska. In the first, the villagers evacuate their homes and camp on higher ground, fearing that a Nuclear test on Amchitka Island, 1000 miles away, may cause a tidal wave....
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directed by Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012; produced by Andrew Chikoyak, fl. 1972, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1972), 37 mins
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Four sequences, filmed over a two-month period, portray aspects of the lives of the people of Tununak, a village on the south-western coast of Alaska. In the first, the villagers evacuate their homes and camp on higher ground, fearing that a Nuclear test on Amchitka Island, 1000 miles away, may cause a tidal wave. In a quietly ironic scene, the Eskimos listen to the countdown on their radios, wondering if this modern blast will bring forth an anc...
Four sequences, filmed over a two-month period, portray aspects of the lives of the people of Tununak, a village on the south-western coast of Alaska. In the first, the villagers evacuate their homes and camp on higher ground, fearing that a Nuclear test on Amchitka Island, 1000 miles away, may cause a tidal wave. In a quietly ironic scene, the Eskimos listen to the countdown on their radios, wondering if this modern blast will bring forth an ancient disaster.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Andrew Chikoyak, fl. 1972
Author / Creator
Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012
Date Published / Released
1972
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Alaskan Eskimo
Topic / Theme
Weapons testing, Nuclear weapons, Daily life, Cultural communities, Yupik
Copyright Message
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Alaskan Eskimo, At The Time of Whaling
directed by Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015 and Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012; produced by Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012, Alaska Native Heritage Film Project, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1974), 39 mins
Gambell, Alaska is a Yupik-speaking community on St. Lawrence Island on the Bering Sea. Here, as on the coast, sea mammals are still the major source of food. During their three-week Spring migration through the Bering Channel, whales are hunted using a combination of traditional organization and recently introduc...
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directed by Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015 and Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012; produced by Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012, Alaska Native Heritage Film Project, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1974), 39 mins
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Gambell, Alaska is a Yupik-speaking community on St. Lawrence Island on the Bering Sea. Here, as on the coast, sea mammals are still the major source of food. During their three-week Spring migration through the Bering Channel, whales are hunted using a combination of traditional organization and recently introduced technology such as motors and darting guns. A bowhead whale weighs about one ton per foot, and may reach seventy feet in length. Wor...
Gambell, Alaska is a Yupik-speaking community on St. Lawrence Island on the Bering Sea. Here, as on the coast, sea mammals are still the major source of food. During their three-week Spring migration through the Bering Channel, whales are hunted using a combination of traditional organization and recently introduced technology such as motors and darting guns. A bowhead whale weighs about one ton per foot, and may reach seventy feet in length. Working together, even fifteen Eskimo skin boats with up to ten persons on each boat cannot assure a safe venture or the taking of a whale.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012, Alaska Native Heritage Film Project
Author / Creator
Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015, Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012
Date Published / Released
1974
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Alaskan Eskimo
Topic / Theme
Whales, Hunting, Yupik
Copyright Message
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Alaskan Eskimo, On the Spring Ice
directed by Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012 and Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1975), 46 mins
Walrus as well as whales are hunted by the Eskimos of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As the film opens, an old man tells of the dangers of moving ice, how people used to drift on such ice and never return.
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directed by Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012 and Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1975), 46 mins
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Walrus as well as whales are hunted by the Eskimos of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As the film opens, an old man tells of the dangers of moving ice, how people used to drift on such ice and never return. Walrus as well as whales are hunted by the Eskimos of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As the film opens, an old man tells of the dangers of moving ice, how people used to drift on such ice and never return. A cluster of men stand on a snowy ro...
Walrus as well as whales are hunted by the Eskimos of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As the film opens, an old man tells of the dangers of moving ice, how people used to drift on such ice and never return. Walrus as well as whales are hunted by the Eskimos of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As the film opens, an old man tells of the dangers of moving ice, how people used to drift on such ice and never return. A cluster of men stand on a snowy rooftop, scanning the sea ice for walrus, when one spots a skin boat in distress far out on the ice. The crew had not come home the night before, and now were drifting toward Siberia. Long ago, there was nothing that could have been done to save them. Today, the men call the Coast Guard. The next day, preparations for another walrus hunt are made. The hunters load the boat and travel fifty miles out to sea, where they spot two walrus sunning themselves on an ice floe. "Don't move," one hunter tells the camera. The walrus are shot, admired, butchered on the ice, and loaded onto the boat. Back in the village, the meat is cut again and hung to dry.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012, Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015
Author / Creator
Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012, Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015
Date Published / Released
1975
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Alaskan Eskimo
Topic / Theme
Eskimo, Tribal and national groups, Ice floes, Hunting, Ethnography, Inuit
Copyright Message
Copyright © by Documentary Educational Resources
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Alaskan Eskimo, From The First People
directed by Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015 and Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012; produced by Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012, Alaska Native Heritage Film Project, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1977), 46 mins
This is a film about change and contemporary life in Shungnak, a village on the Kobuk River in northwestern Alaska, 75 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Life in this inland community is dominated by the seasons and the river. In October, when the film begins, the Kobuk becomes filled with ice, which slowly thicken...
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directed by Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015 and Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012; produced by Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012, Alaska Native Heritage Film Project, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1977), 46 mins
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This is a film about change and contemporary life in Shungnak, a village on the Kobuk River in northwestern Alaska, 75 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Life in this inland community is dominated by the seasons and the river. In October, when the film begins, the Kobuk becomes filled with ice, which slowly thickens until freeze-up is complete. Traditional subsistence activities still continue: women net fish under the ice, and a man and his wife...
This is a film about change and contemporary life in Shungnak, a village on the Kobuk River in northwestern Alaska, 75 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Life in this inland community is dominated by the seasons and the river. In October, when the film begins, the Kobuk becomes filled with ice, which slowly thickens until freeze-up is complete. Traditional subsistence activities still continue: women net fish under the ice, and a man and his wife construct a cottonwood mudshark trap that is carefully placed in the river ice. The combination of old and new technology is pervasive. Some people hitch their teams of huskies to a sled, others travel by snowmobile.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012, Alaska Native Heritage Film Project
Author / Creator
Sarah Elder, fl. 1973-2015, Leonard Kamerling, fl. 1974-2012
Date Published / Released
1977
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Alaskan Eskimo
Topic / Theme
Cold weather, Hunting, Daily life, Cultural change and history, Inupiat
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1977 Documentary Educational Resources
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Alaskan Eskimo, In Iirgu's Time
directed by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-; produced by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1988), 19 mins
Iirgu is an elder from the Siberian Yupik Eskimo village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As two grandchildren listen, Iirgu recounts events in Gambell from the time the first missionaries arrived. His story is known as an ungipamsuk or true historical narrative. With ambivalent feelings, he describes more recen...
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directed by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-; produced by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1988), 19 mins
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Iirgu is an elder from the Siberian Yupik Eskimo village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As two grandchildren listen, Iirgu recounts events in Gambell from the time the first missionaries arrived. His story is known as an ungipamsuk or true historical narrative. With ambivalent feelings, he describes more recent changes - how whaling practices have changed, how life has become easier, but also how younger generations are losing touch with the...
Iirgu is an elder from the Siberian Yupik Eskimo village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As two grandchildren listen, Iirgu recounts events in Gambell from the time the first missionaries arrived. His story is known as an ungipamsuk or true historical narrative. With ambivalent feelings, he describes more recent changes - how whaling practices have changed, how life has become easier, but also how younger generations are losing touch with the old ways.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-
Author / Creator
Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-
Date Published / Released
1988
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Alaskan Eskimo
Topic / Theme
Traditional history, Oral history, Cultural change and history, Yupik
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1988 Documentary Educational Resources
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Alaskan Eskimo, The Reindeer Thief
written by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-; directed by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-; produced by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1988), 12 mins
Like many St. Lawrence Island legends, this story is set in Siberia where Chukchi, the Reindeer People, live. Pelaasi, an elder from Gambell, speaks Siberian Yupik. His mythical story, about a man who goes out in search of a reindeer thief is an ungipaghaq, a tale that has been passed down unchanged through genera...
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written by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-; directed by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-; produced by Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-, in Alaskan Eskimo (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1988), 12 mins
Description
Like many St. Lawrence Island legends, this story is set in Siberia where Chukchi, the Reindeer People, live. Pelaasi, an elder from Gambell, speaks Siberian Yupik. His mythical story, about a man who goes out in search of a reindeer thief is an ungipaghaq, a tale that has been passed down unchanged through generations and believed to be based in truth.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-, Pelaasi, 1894-1982, Eva Nevak
Author / Creator
Katrina Kassler Waters, 1957-
Date Published / Released
1988
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Alaskan Eskimo
Speaker / Narrator
Eva Nevak
Topic / Theme
Eskimo, Yupik, Myths and legends, Ethnography, Inuit
Copyright Message
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Aleut Story
directed by Marla Williams, fl. 1998-2005; produced by Marla Williams, fl. 1998-2005, Aleutian Pribilof Heritage Group and SprocketHeads (Lincoln, NE: Vision Maker Media, 2005), 1 hour 27 mins
In the turbulence of war, in a place where survival was just short of miraculous, the Aleuts of Alaska would redefine themselves -- and America. From indentured servitude and isolated internment camps, to Congress and the White House, this is the incredible story of the Aleuts' decades-long struggle for human and...
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directed by Marla Williams, fl. 1998-2005; produced by Marla Williams, fl. 1998-2005, Aleutian Pribilof Heritage Group and SprocketHeads (Lincoln, NE: Vision Maker Media, 2005), 1 hour 27 mins
Description
In the turbulence of war, in a place where survival was just short of miraculous, the Aleuts of Alaska would redefine themselves -- and America. From indentured servitude and isolated internment camps, to Congress and the White House, this is the incredible story of the Aleuts' decades-long struggle for human and civil rights. Narrated by Martin Sheen and original music score by Composer Alan Koshiyama, the program draws compelling parallels to t...
In the turbulence of war, in a place where survival was just short of miraculous, the Aleuts of Alaska would redefine themselves -- and America. From indentured servitude and isolated internment camps, to Congress and the White House, this is the incredible story of the Aleuts' decades-long struggle for human and civil rights. Narrated by Martin Sheen and original music score by Composer Alan Koshiyama, the program draws compelling parallels to the present, as our country grapples with the challenging question of the balance between civil liberties and national security.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Marla Williams, fl. 1998-2005, Aleutian Pribilof Heritage Group, SprocketHeads, Martin Sheen, 1940-
Author / Creator
Marla Williams, fl. 1998-2005
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Speaker / Narrator
Martin Sheen, 1940-
Topic / Theme
History, War, Human rights, Aleut
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2005 by Vision Maker Media
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Brandy Y's Seeing the USA: Indigenous Stories, Episode 101, Alaska Indigenous experience - Alaska Native Heritage Centre
directed by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008; produced by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008, in Brandy Y's Seeing the USA: Indigenous Stories, Episode 101 (Edmonton, AB: Brandy Y Productions, 2019), 7 mins
In this episode Brandy Yanchyk has an Indigenous experience at the Alaska Native Heritage Centre in Anchorage. (taken from Seeing the USA – Alaska, episode 101)
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directed by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008; produced by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008, in Brandy Y's Seeing the USA: Indigenous Stories, Episode 101 (Edmonton, AB: Brandy Y Productions, 2019), 7 mins
Description
In this episode Brandy Yanchyk has an Indigenous experience at the Alaska Native Heritage Centre in Anchorage. (taken from Seeing the USA – Alaska, episode 101)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008
Author / Creator
Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Brandy Y Productions
Series
Brandy Y's Seeing the USA: Indigenous Stories
Topic / Theme
Indigenous peoples, Race and culture
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2019 Brandy Yanchyk
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Crests etc.
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 20. Indian Mythology, Ethics -- Notes) (1929) , 5 page(s)
Five slips of paper contain hand-written notes on various Native American myth themes or motifs, such as crests (clan symbols), punishment of taboos and fishing songs. Most refer to various myths of the Tsimshian people of Pacific Canada and Alaska, as related by Franz Boas in 'Thirty-First Annual Report of the Bu...
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 20. Indian Mythology, Ethics -- Notes) (1929) , 5 page(s)
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Five slips of paper contain hand-written notes on various Native American myth themes or motifs, such as crests (clan symbols), punishment of taboos and fishing songs. Most refer to various myths of the Tsimshian people of Pacific Canada and Alaska, as related by Franz Boas in 'Thirty-First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1909-1910' published 1916; and in 'Tsimshian Texts, Publications of the American Ethnological Society, III,...
Five slips of paper contain hand-written notes on various Native American myth themes or motifs, such as crests (clan symbols), punishment of taboos and fishing songs. Most refer to various myths of the Tsimshian people of Pacific Canada and Alaska, as related by Franz Boas in 'Thirty-First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1909-1910' published 1916; and in 'Tsimshian Texts, Publications of the American Ethnological Society, III,' 1912. Upside-down at the bottom of each page, an ink stamp reads 'From the Papers of Ruth Benedict.'
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Date Written / Recorded
1929
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Songs, Taboo, Symbolism, Tsimshian
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
directed by Phil Lucas, 1942-2007 and Jeffry Lloyd Silverman, fl. 2005-2009; produced by Jeffry Lloyd Silverman, fl. 2005-2009 (Lincoln, NE: Vision Maker Media, 2009), 57 mins
This documentary reveals the true-life story of an extraordinary Alaskan woman who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight for civil rights.
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directed by Phil Lucas, 1942-2007 and Jeffry Lloyd Silverman, fl. 2005-2009; produced by Jeffry Lloyd Silverman, fl. 2005-2009 (Lincoln, NE: Vision Maker Media, 2009), 57 mins
Description
This documentary reveals the true-life story of an extraordinary Alaskan woman who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight for civil rights.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jeffry Lloyd Silverman, fl. 2005-2009
Author / Creator
Phil Lucas, 1942-2007, Jeffry Lloyd Silverman, fl. 2005-2009
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Topic / Theme
Racism, Indigenous peoples, Civil rights, Jim Crow laws, 1876 - 1965, Political and Social Movements
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 by Vision Maker Media
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