Cross of the Yukon

 
Director: 
unknown
Writer: 
Mike Martz, Richard Goldstein
Production Date: 
1990
Producer: 
Mike Martz, Richard Goldstein
Narrator: 
Lenida Hawkins
Run Time: 
0:26:27

Establishing shot:
Named locations:
Major themes covered: history of St. Mary’s Mission, an orphanage and school founded by Jesuits priests and Ursuline sisters in 1905 in Akulurak, on the Yukon River, and closed down in 1987
Native activities shown:    
Individuals? Named?  
Native language spoken:
Audible?  
Noteworthy elements:  
Other notes: The KYUK TV Productions Collection: A series of informative TV documentaries spotlighting varied aspects of life among the Yup’ik people of Southwestern Alaska. These films were produced by television station KYUK (Bethel Broadcasting) in Bethel, Alaska, which has kindly made them available to the American Indian Film Gallery.