Summary of Third International Conference on Russian America: Irkutsk, August 2007

Here is a brief description of the Third International Conference on Russian America, held in Irkutsk in August. Details, including a program and photos, are available at

http://home.gci.net/~sncnuka/JSARGRA/JSARGRA-2007-Conference.html

. The next conference has been proposed for Alaska in 2010.
Third International Conference on Russian America: Irkutsk, August 2007
In a long overdue follow up to [...]

Alutiiq Museum, the MacArthur Prize, and Dr Lydia Black

Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, was honored by a MacArthur Fellowship this week, a well-deserved recognition. He credits Lydia Black with spurring his interest in anthropology and in pursuing a doctorate degree as a means to doing his life’s work.

Alaska Public Radio News MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ awarded to Alutiiq Museum director
http://aprn.org/2007/09/25/macarthur-genius-grant-awarded-to-alutiiq-museum-director/

Anchorage Daily [...]

Lydia T. Black audio memorials

Both of these memorials are very interesting and nicely done.
Unalaska public radio
Lydia Black, scholar of the Aleutians, dies at 81
KIAL News
UNALASKA, AK (2007-03-13) One of the most renowned scholars of Unangan culture and art has passed away. [...] Audio (mp3 file): Patty Lekanoff-Gregory knew Lydia Black for more than thirty years, since her first visit [...]

Alaskan author researcher Lydia Black

The following is reprinted with permission from the Kodiak Daily Mirror (thank you) and on-line at

http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=4480

Alaskan author, researcher Lydia Black dies at age 81
Article published on Monday, March 12th, 2007, By SCOTT CHRISTIANSEN, Kodiak Daily Mirror
Dr. Lydia Black, noted anthropologist and author of several books on Alaska Native culture and Alaska history, died this morning [...]

Dr Lydia Black documents

Additional information about | Lydia T. Black 1925 to 2007 |
Obituary
| Prof Black obituary | (right click to save as MS Word document download)
Memorial booklet
| In Memoriam, Lydia T. Black | (pdf file, 480kB, right click to download and save)
Alaskan author, researcher Lydia Black dies at age 81
Article published on Monday, March 12th, 2007, [...]

Lydia T. Black 1925 to 2007

I just received notice my friend and guide, Dr. Lydia T. Black, an anthropologist whose research restored to Alaskan peoples important features of their history and culture, has died early this morning in Kodiak, AK, with family, friends, and Orthodox services present. She was 81.
from the family (to be continued)–

Dr. Black’s research of the Russian [...]

Help wanted Alaskan Icons

Yekaterinburg Alaskan Icon Exhibition for 200th Anniversary of American-Russian Diplomatic Relations
Prof. Lydia Black has asked that I publicize the evident need for Orthodox icons made by Alaska Natives and other Native Americans for a special bicentennial exhibit. These could be contemporary examples or historic. I’m guessing icons by unknown Native artists or iconographers would be [...]

St Innocent of Alaska Bicentennial (Ioann Veniaminov)

St Innocent of Alaska Bicentennial (Ioann Veniaminov)
I had a chance to help Prof. Lydia Black with her organizing of the Veniaminov Bicentennial, 1997, by acting as a digital translator.

St Innocent of Alaska Bicentennial (Ioann Veniaminov)
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/08/01/ st-innocent-of-alaska-bicentennial-ioann-veniaminov/

Russian Alaska on radio

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
The Alaska – Russia connection. We talk to the Samovar Cafe, eat pieroshki made of salmon, find out about the old Russian capitol in Sitka, and find out about polar bears.”
http://akradio.org/archive/
(MP 3, 1 HR)
http://akradio.org/archive/AK%2008-26-2006.mp3
08/26/2006 broadcast
Dr. Lydia Black

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St Innocent of Alaska Bicentennial (Ioann Veniaminov)

I had a chance to help Prof. Lydia Black with her organizing of the Veniaminov Bicentennial, 1997, by acting as a digital translator.
St Innocent of Alaska Bicentennial (Ioann Veniaminov)

St Innocent of Alaska Bicentennial (Ioann Veniaminov)

I had a chance to help Prof. Lydia Black with her organizing of the Veniaminov Bicentennial, by acting as a digital translator. 2007-03-13 Lydia T. Black 1925 to 2007
Ioann Veniaminov is the world’s most famous Alaskan, except in Alaska and the USA.

http://www.uaf.edu/univrel/media/FY98/026.html
I was fortunate to find the Orthodox Church in America
http://www.oca.org which [...]