Alaska Humanities Forum Blog

This is the second of three Door 15 profiles of University of Alaska scholars recognized for their distinguished service to the humanities at the 2010 Governor’s Awards for the Arts & Humanities.

Last fall the Alaska Humanities Forum honored Dr. William Schneider for his work documenting the oral histories of Alaska residents – personal stories that help define the many communities he has visited during nearly four decades devoted to preserving Alaskans' history and heritage.

Tags: Governor's Awards, Governor's Awards for the Arts & Humanities

Rose Urban Rural Sister School Exchange guide Veldee Hall reports from the field:

The Sister School Exchange is rapidly approaching its spring exchange season. As a sister school guide (SSG), I have lately been spending time in villages that are participating in the exchange program in order to touch base with their schools and students before they travel. Last week I went with Matthew Turner, another SSG, to Nuiqsut (new-WICK-sit), located in the Colville River Delta, about 30 miles from the Beaufort Sea coast. The community is new to the exchange program but we had great support from the Nuiqsut Trapper School and staff in getting the word out to the families and community.

Tags: Rose Urban Rural Exchange

A short documentary film about the community of Nikolai, Alaska that was funded in part by a 2010 Alaska Humanities Forum mini-grant won honorable mention at the 10th annual Anchorage International Film Festival.

Tags: Grants, Film

Supported by a $9,000 2011 grant awarded by the Alaska Humanities Forum, the Eyak Language Project has launched a website as part of its determined new effort to preserve the endangered language of the Eyak people of the Cordova region. The last known fluent Native Eyak speake, Chief Marie Smith Jones, passed away in 2008.

Tags: Grants

Rose Urban Rural Exchange, a cross-cultural exchange program housed by the Alaska Humanities Forum, has launched its redesigned website at roseurbanruralexchange.org.

The new site emphasizes multimedia content and unifies all three Rose Urban Rural Exchange (RURE) programs on a single, comprehensive website for the first time.

Tags: Rose Urban Rural Exchange