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Irene was born in Akhiok. She learned Alutiiq by listening to her father, grandmother, and grandfather, and has helped to establish an Alutiiq language learning program in Anchorage in collaboration with Fred Coyle and John Yakanak. Digital Heritage
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This recording contains an account of Fedosia Laktonen's childhood, as well as stories about an evil raven, a bear woman, a fox woman, and a girl who marries the moon. (ANLA ID: ANLCAS077) (In Alutiiq)Digital Heritage
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Continued from Fedosia Laktonen A, this recording includes a story about a magpie, a story about a stickleback, and a conversation with Pete Atenedof. (ANLA ID: ANLCAS077) (In Alutiiq)Digital Heritage
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Nida Chya and Christine Ignatin talk about putting fish up, making tamuuq (smoked salmon), using pink or "humpy" salmon for making smoked fish, and storing fish in the shed or "saRayaaq". (In Alutiiq)Digital Heritage
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Martha Matfay and Natalie Jack talk about movies, gathering seafood and berries, and Christmas and wedding traditions. Reference notes are from Florence Pestrikoff, Mary Haakanson, and Michael Bach, and are titled Florence and Mary 20150728. (In Alutiiq)Digital Heritage
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Nida Chya and Christine Ignatin talk about playing games outside, hanging kelp to dry, Lent, sewing sea otter skins, making gutskin raincoats out of seal guts, and sleeping in kayaks. (In Alutiiq)
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Sophie Katelnikoff Shepherd was born in Karluk in 1927. Her apprentices call her Taquka’aq ("Bear").
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Florence Matfay Christiansen Pestrikoff was born in Akhiok in 1937. Although she says she became involved in the Alutiiq language revitalization movement “accidentally,” she has remained involved for nearly 15 years.
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Rhoda Moonin is a fluent Sugt'stun speaker who has worked as language coordinator in an immersion preschool.
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Ephim Moonin was born in Nanwalek to Herman and Annie Moonin. He grew up speaking only Sugt'stun until he went to school.
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Born in Old Harbor to Walter and Julia Melovedoff, Sally Carlough grew up in Kaguyak. She has since lived in Kodiak, Akhiok, and Anchorage.