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/

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Art is older than thought

Radiocarbon dates reveal that New Guinea art is older than thought
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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 [...]

Native Crafts Health Effects Project

As part of the HazArt project | Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) | we tested the ambient air quality during a firing of black-on-black (reduced) pottery. This field project was a collaboration of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc., Sandia National Laboratory, and Tewa Women United.
The project [...]

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 [...]

New Zealand after Nuclear War

Anthropological Aspects of “New Zealand after Nuclear War” [1987-1988]
Comments on the findings of the book, NZ after NW, are due to the Minister of the Environment by 27 November 1987. Written ideas for an anthropological submission to the Ministry are needed by 5 November to M. Pamela Bumsted.
References and background material are located in the [...]

The Anthropology of Human Survival

Originally (1985) the discussion focussed on Nuclear Winter. But the basics of what it means to be human are relevant to tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes among other tragedies. The late 20th century as in the late 14th century (and in the 20 centuries before then) saw entire communities of people massacred by their neighbors. [...]

Small Business in Western Alaska

In 2004 I set up this discussion page linked from our regular webpage that I set up through the ISP. The QuickTopic is a wonderfully easier way to update information than a regular webpage or even a blog.—

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Since 1943, the Moravian Book Store has served the peoples of the Yukon Kuskokwim [...]

Biocultural Dimensions of Environment and Health

Bumsted, M. Pamela, Karen S. Young, and Leon H. Tafoya 1994 Biocultural Dimensions of Health and Environment. In John S. Andrews, Howard Frumkin, Barry L. Johnson, Myron A. Mehlman, Charles Xintaras, and Jeanne A. Bucsela, eds. Hazardous Waste and Public Health: International Congress on the Health Effects of Hazardous Waste. pp. 245-252. Princeton: Princeton Scientific [...]

VT-CH-94 Vermont’s Earliest Known Agricultural Experiment Station

man in the northeast 19:1980 pp. 73-82
M. Pamela Bumsted
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Abstract
The first documented prehistoric corn remains from Vermont, in association with abundant gathered foods, were recovered in 1978 from an early Late Woodland (ca., A.D. 1450) site on the Winooski River intervale in the Champlain Lowland. The presence of both cultivated and gathered foods suggests [...]

Proposal to expand the capacity of communities to develop healthy families through the VISTA program

VISTA project for 1997
Excerpts from the successful proposal I wrote for expanding the capacity of communities to develop healthy families through the VISTA program
22 September 1996
TO: Center for National Service, Alaska Office (VISTA)
The three VISTAs in 1996 have made a difference to their communities by their service in solid waste, environmental consciousness, hazardous waste cleanup, [...]