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Major themes covered: focuses on artifacts and what they tell scholars about our past through a visit to the Smithsonian Institution and the collection assembled by Edward Nelson
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Major themes covered: a troupe of amateur actors from Toksook Bay, Alaska travel to Nancy, France to present David Hunsacker’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone at the Theatre des Nations—then at LaMama Playhouse in New York City [for the actual play, see Yup’ik Antigone below]
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Major themes covered: master carvers from Nunivak Island explain and demonstrate the function of the dance stick—in Yup’ik language
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Major themes covered: celebrating Christmas in the Russian Orthodox manner in the Orthodox villages of the lower Kuskokwim River
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Major themes covered: Yup’ik storytellers spin tales of fantastic creatures, ghosts, and the mischievous “Little People”
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Major themes covered: dancers from the Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta villages perform
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Major themes covered: historical documentary tells the story of the men and women serving in the Tundra Army of Alaska’s Territorial Guard during World War II where more than half of the Guard was comprised on Yup’ik and Inupiaq Eskimos
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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
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Major themes covered: annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska in the Spring - groups participating include the Bethel Traditional Dancers; Bethel High School Warriors Dancers; St. Mary’s Dancers; Tomodachi Daiko Taiko Drummers; Chevak Dancer
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Major themes covered: annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska in the Spring - groups participating include the Bethel Traditional Dancers; Bethel High School Warriors Dancers; St. Mary’s Dancers; Tomodachi Daiko Taiko Drummers; Chevak Dancer
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