Alaska at the national anthropology conference 2007

106th AAA (American Anthropological Association) Annual Meeting Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2007 Washington, DC
The abstracts are not on-line, but it may be possible to do an Internet search on the author’s names to find their contact information.
Governing the Harvest: Law and Subsistence Hunting in Alaska
Session Title: Legal Pluralism and Popular Justice
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Internet Archive (Veniaminov)

Happened to run across something else at the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine). They do a number of virtual library collections.
The russian orthodox church : organization, situation, activity

http://www.archive.org/details/therussianorthod00unknuoft

Pages which mention Veniaminov. The entire book can be downloaded in various formats.

http://ia311517.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/2/items/ therussianorthod00unknuoft/therussianorthod00unknuoft_flippy.zip&file=0153.jpg

The book was published about 1957-58 by the church in the Soviet Union, according to its [...]

In Alaska, a Tradition of Orthodox Faith

In Alaska, a Tradition of Russian Faith
Those who brought the Orthodox church here are long gone, but the diocese is thriving.
By Sam Howe Verhovek, Times Staff Writer, October 1, 2006
TATITLEK, Alaska — Steve Totemoff keeps faith alive in this tiny Alaskan village — the Russian Orthodox faith.
Totemoff, a native Aleut, keeps the faith when he [...]

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, 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 [...]