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Rangimarie-Alaska Cultural Exchange-Facilitating Peace
This project was completed August, 2004. The Nome Arts Council spearheaded the effort to bring the Maori performing arts group Rangimarie from New Zealand to explore ideologies of peace as contained in Alaska Native and Maori cultures. This global example of how different cultures from separate parts of the world can come together for mutual growth shows the context of indigenous culture interactively and powerfully tying people together in peaceful relationships.

Shipping Out: The Story of America’s Women Seafarers
This project came to a close in December, 2004. The Film Arts Foundation and Maria Brooks completed a fascinating six minute “work in progress” video featuring women in the maritime industry including women working for the Alaska Marine Highway. Overall, the context of women performing non-traditional work historically and at present is explored and the “work in progress” video will be used to leverage further funding toward the completion of a 60 minute documentary to be aired on public television.

Images of Continuity, Images of Change
This project was completed in 1978. The University of Alaska, Fairbanks and T.R. Oates explored historical information dealing with the themes of conservation and development in the context of the public policy debate of that time. They developed thirty photographic panels with excerpts from diaries, journals and reports from Alaska pioneers, surveyors and explorers.

Oral History and Ethnohistory Documentation in Noatak
This project was completed January 2005. The Native Village of Noatak and Hilda Booth engaged in oral history documentation to explore the information village elders hold regarding the Noatak river places. They traveled the river in August 2004 with a group of elders and documented stories and mapped place names and history for use by the entire village.

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