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Community
Language Learning
Category
Speaker Registry
Summary
Rhoda Moonin is a fluent Sugt'stun speaker who has worked as language coordinator in an immersion preschool.
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Speaker Registry
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Speaker Registry
Summary
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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Community
Language Learning
Category
Speaker Registry
Summary
Born in Old Harbor to Walter and Julia Melovedoff, Sally Carlough grew up in Kaguyak. She has since lived in Kodiak, Akhiok, and Anchorage.
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Speaker Registry
Summary
Sally Ash was born and raised in Nanwalek. After training as a hairdresser, she went on to teach at a Sugt'stun immersion school along with her sister, Rhoda Moonin.
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Archival
Summary
Born in California, Alfred Quijance grew up speaking Alutiiq and moved to Kodiak when he was eleven years old. He and his wife Helen now live in Seldovia, where he enjoys carpentry and eating traditional foods such as duck, seal, and baidarkies.
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Archival
Summary
Fred Coyle learned Alutiiq from his mother and father, and has helped to establish an Alutiiq language learning group in Anchorage in collaboration with Irene Coyle and John Yakanak.
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Archival
Summary
Nick Alokli was born in 1936 at the Alitak Cannery near Akhiok, and grew up in Akhiok and at Egkuq in the Olga Bay Narrows.
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Archival
Summary
A lifelong member of the Kodiak community, Susan Malutin is from Alutiiq families with roots in Afognak and Ukamok (Chirikof Island) villages.
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Archival
Summary
Candace Branson is an advanced Alutiiq speaker and teacher. Her Alutiiq name is Cutmen ("Moving Forward").
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Archival
Summary
Julia was born in Afognak, Alaska in 1929. Her parents were Afonie and Christina Knagin Lukin.
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Community
Language Learning
Category
Speaker Registry
Summary
Paul Kahutak was born on Woody Island or "Tangirnaq". In addition to his military service, he has worked as a seine fisherman, a subsistence hunter, and an Alutiiq teacher.