#Alutiiq

[folkfashion]

Sugpiat women, Alaska, by Lexi Qass’uq Trainer

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal ! 🦭

Seal Decoy Helmet

Alutiiq (Pacific Eskimo), Kodiak Island, Alaska, before 1869

Carved & painted spruce wood, inlay whiskers, 17.5 x 25.5 x 19 cm (6 7/8 x 10 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Harvard Peabody Museum 69-30-10/64700

“Carved from wood, hunters would have worn this hat to approach and trap seals.”

[meztlijaguar]

«I love you» in different Native American languages Qunukamken = I love you (Alutiiq Language, Alaska) Chiholloli = I love you (Chickasaw, Oklahoma) Ayóó’áníínísh’ní = I love you (Diné, Navajo, Arizona/New Mexico) Moo ‘ams ni stinta = I love you (Klamath-Modoc, Oregon) Ktaʔwãanin = I love you (Mahican Dialect, Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe of Wisconsin) Konnorónhkwa = I love you (Mohawk, New York) In ‘ee hetewise = I love you (Nimiipuutimpt, Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho) Nu Soopeda U = I love you (Northern Paiute, Nevada) Gizaagiin = I love you (Ojibwa/Bad River Ojibwe, Wisconsin) Kunoluhkwa = I love you (Oneida Tribe, Wisconsin) Thro sii muu = You are dear to me (Pueblo of Acoma, Acoma Keres dictionary, New Mexico) Eee-peinoom = I love you (Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico) Amuu-thro-maa = I love you (Pueblo of Laguna, Laguna Keres dictionary, New Mexico) Shro- tse-mah = I love you (Pueblo of San Felipe, San Felipe Keres dictionary, New Mexico) ‘Ho’doh’ee’cheht’mah = I love you (Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico) Kʷ in̓x̣menč = I love you (Salish, Washington) Gönóöhgwa’ = I love you (Seneca Tribe, New York) Ixsixán = I love you (Tlingit, Alaska) I daat axajóon — I’m dreaming of you (Tlingit, Alaska) Ma ihkmahka — I love you (to a male) (Tunica, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana) Hɛma ihkmahka — I love you (to a female) (Tunica, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana)

[islandgirl37]

A Beautiful Sunday in Kodiak

It was a beautiful sunny day, the first one we’d seen in a while. I took advantage of the weather and decided to go for a walk around town. Since we were docked at the Ferry Terminal, the first thing I did was to visit the Kodiak Visitors Center right around in front. Kodiak Ferry Terminal The people there were very nice and helpful. They gave me some good ideas for things to do and answered a…

[gritty-big-naturals]

who wants to go to the met museum and yell about stolen indigenous art with me bc WEW i’m heated

[nonhapiupareti]

Linda Infante Lyons

The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, Alaska.

[mathosapabeads]

Makhachega bolo, inspired by (and named for) earthenware pottery. made with 11/0 seed beads, 11/0 copper lined seed beads, rhinestone banding, glass copper vitrail spike beads, glass czech beads, Alutiiq made salmon leather, Cherokee made resin cab with dried flower, steel slider and tips, and leather cord.

[folkfashion]

Alutiiq dancers, Alaska, by Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers

[baebeylik]

Whale. Ivory. Alutiiq. Alaska, United States. 20th Century CE.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[dailymothanon]

I wasn't sure what to draw and didn't feel like being too complicated, so here's ND, squeezing him squashing him twisting him. A good stress reliever I would know because I do this all the time

😌 also this was just me playing around with some random tattoos for Alaska, dunno if i'll keep it or not. As for his gender, and the nuance between all his cultures, the simplest I can say is that to me he could be third gender, which there is many nuance towards it because he has so many different cultures, but for now i'll go with the Sugpiaq/Alutiiq term, arnauciq, or basically, "two persons united in one" and can do both roles that are viewed as equal in communities.

I am currently making a doc for all my findings towards gender in Alaskan culture since there is a lot, so ermm just tell me if you ever wanna see it cuz why not 🤷 I just wanna be respectful as I do it hence all the research

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

Hunter's hat with sea lion whiskers. Alaska, United States, Alutiiq peoples, 1820-1860 

[islandgirl37]

A Beautiful Sunday in Kodiak

[jellogram]

It's funny that Pitbull agreed to go to whichever walmart got the most votes and that people voted to send him to a remote city in alaska but it's even better that he seems to have had a great time and was welcomed with open arms. Like people on facebook tried to exile him but not only did he go through with his promise, he hung out with the people there and met some Alutiiq dancers and received a gift of bear repellent and it sounds like it was a good time for everyone.

nice try stupid facebook losers who thought Alaska was a desolate wasteland but this was a massive W for everyone involved

[madsmilfelsen]

Hello! I'm really curious, what books/authors would you recommend to someone who's new to writing horror?

Hi! Here is what I have on hand (minus my loaned out copies of my favorite book ever Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones and Never Whistle At Night: an indigenous anthology of dark fiction which made me cry on an airplane and made the person next to me very uncomfortable, like she was just trying to build a cart at banana republic, apologies to seat 17B)

God’s Cruel Joke Lit Mag because I’m in them and will be in issue 4, too :) published either mid-January or February 2024– @labyrinthphanlivingafacade is in issue 3 with a great short story that I won’t spoil ***right now the magazines are available to purchase in physical copies but I was told all issues will be free to download as pdfs pretty soon!

Severance by Ling Ma (body horror but not in the way you think, the real horror is repetition and loneliness)

Wilder Girls by Rory Power (body horror)

The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis (adjacent the horror genre but a hell of a read)

ANYTHING BY STEPHAN GRAHAM JONES ANYTHING

We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirely Jackson (I read this for the first time last spring boy howdy, I also included The Lottery for its suspense)

Dean Koontz because my husband suggested it for the list— this was just the first title I grabbed, I think he said Patrician Crowell too but I was busy looking for Mongrels

A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans (I didn’t finish this because depression set in shortly after I started but the first chapter plays with second pov which I really liked, I’m determined to read it this year)

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (I really enjoyed HBO’s adaptation)

The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey (likely the only zombie stories that made me weep uncontrollably)

Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein (non-fiction: explores modern young women navigating sexuality and because I have a thing for loss of autonomy— it’s been a few years since I read it but there is discussion of sexual assault, but I appreciate the expanse of her research and even included a conversation with someone who is asexual)

Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James (got a chill just typing this out— the audio book is exquisite)

You’ll notice some nonfiction because, as a historian undergrad, nothing scares me more than man. The battles of Leningrad and Stalingrad are particularly stomach churning. America’s Reconstruction Era is full of acted out malice and under taught in my opinion.

An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The 900 Days, The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury

Enemy at the Gates by William Craig

(On the other side of WW2 I have a book of the experiences of German solider’s left over from a paper I wrote on the inadequacy of Nazi uniforms and how it expedited their failure in Russia, Frontsoldaten by Stephen G. Fritz)

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr (one of my favorite authors, try finding “How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism” Time Magazine, April 2, 2019, I used it as a source for a paper on the history of voting rights)

Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers— folk tales of Canadians, Lumberjacks & Indians by Richard M. Dorson (published around 1952 but content collected from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 40’s)

Raven Tells Stories: An Anthology of Alaskan Native Writing (I’m Alutiiq and the museum on Kodiak has a lot of stories recorded under Alutiiq Museum Podcast— my kids and I listen on Spotify)

I think the genre of horror is really mastering tension and playing on peoples fears which is why I included old school folk stories (An Underground Education had a great write up on the Grimm Brothers and the original fairy tales from around the world such as the Chinese and Egyptian Cinderella, as well as several different sections of funny tales, torture techniques, absolute weirdos etc etc) in this vein of thought The Uses of Enchanment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim could prove to be useful

If you’re writing a character with Bad Parents— Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and Toxic Parents (it has a longer subtitle but I don’t see my copy anywhere) might be able to help you shape character traits

I reached out to @littleredwritingcat who has a mind plentiful in sources who recommended

The Gathering Dark: an anthology of folk horror (I will be picking this one up asap)

Toll by Cherie Priest (southern gothic)

Anything by Jennifer MacMahon

The Elementals by Michael McDowell

[allgremlinart]

ok since a couple people were wondering in the tags I'll explain where I referenced Sokka and Yue's outfits from here under the cut :]

for Sokka I mostly referenced Aleut/Alutiiq/Unangan clothes (think Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Northwest Coast - thereabouts)

for Yue I referenced Haida/Tlingit/Northwest Coast clothes, specifically this gorgeous apron and shawl combo from the Stonington Gallery which u should soooo check out. I chose this inspo for Yue cus A) its gorge and B) there were like clearly Northwest inspired Totem Poles at the Northern Water Tribe so I wanted to include that element in my pre-uni designs instead of just Mongolian/Siberian elements (which I do loooove seeing in Yue fanart btw iykyk)

as with like. ALL of my atla fashion art I've clearly taken extreme creative liberties with the clothes, because essentially they're fantasy setting clothes and I'm not gonna act like they're not lol. you should def research Northwest Coast clothing if you're into clothes like I am tho because there's plenty of historical resources and modern artists out there

Also while I'm here... go watch Sgaawaay K'unna >:) its good

[bigfootbeat]

Nantinaq, Killer Bigfoot?

The Alutiiq people have long shared legends about a mysterious creature known as the Nantinaq, which inhabits the deep forests of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. The indigenous peoples who have lived in these areas for innumerable centuries have incorporated this creature—often characterized as a big, hairy humanoid akin to Bigfoot—into their cultural fabric. The Nantinaq are described in the oral traditions of the Alutiiq as a spiritual being with supernatural abilities in addition to being a physical menace. The Discovery+ documentary Alaskan Killer Bigfoot, which examined the creature's alleged connection to the odd case of Portlock, Alaska, brought the Nantinaq mythology back into the spotlight. Located on the southern shore of the Kenai Peninsula, this once-thriving community had a sudden and severe drop in population in the 1940s. The television series put out the contentious hypothesis that the Nantinaq's presence and actions might have caused the locals' exodus.

Locals claim that a string of enigmatic disappearances and disturbing incidents preceded Portlock's abandonment. Locals observed enigmatic tracks in the snow, strange noises emanating from the nearby woodlands, and an overwhelming sense of surveillance. The town's eventual evacuation was influenced by the environment of fear and uncertainty brought about by these incidents as well as the customary Alutiiq warnings about the Nantinaq. The traditional Bigfoot or Sasquatch stories from the Pacific Northwest are not exactly the same as the Alutiiq people's depictions of the Nantinaq. Their culture claims that the monster possesses metaphysical powers, including the ability to make itself invisible and confuse hunters. These traits are less consistent with cryptid encounters that are solely physical and more consistent with other indigenous spiritual beliefs about forest beings.

The legend of the Nantinaq continues to enthrall people interested in cryptozoology and local mythology, despite detractors who contend that the fall of Portlock can be ascribed to more commonplace causes like shifting fishing patterns, economic shifts, or post-war social dynamics. The dramatic portrayal of these events in the television series has raised awareness of the rich cultural traditions of the Alutiiq people and this little-known period of Alaskan history. The Nantinaq legend's enduring popularity serves as a reminder of the intricate intertwining of natural and supernatural components in the interaction between indigenous peoples and their surroundings. Whether considered a real animal or a metaphor for the might of the environment, the Nantinaq continue to play a significant role in Alaskan culture, especially when it comes to comprehending the distinct viewpoints and experiences of the Alutiiq people of the Kenai Peninsula.