#sugpiaq

[madsmilfelsen]

I went to Alaska recently and never ate better

[sir-arlieosaurus-lung-struggler]

I found a book that has some tlingit legends & stuff & im just here like tearing up lol.

Like, I was never told any of these, or any other 1s. It just feels nice, and bittersweet and such.

[Image ID: the cover of a book illustrated in monochrome brown and off white. It shows a raven cawing with its claws holding a small tree branch. Behind the tree there is a totem pole. The book is titled "The Raven and the Totem; Traditional Alaska Native Myths and Tales" the credits read "Collected and edited by John E. Smelcer" and "illustrated by Larry Vienneau and Susie Bevins"/.End ID]

[Image ID: the praface of the preiviously mentioned book reading "preface: this volume Contains ethnographic narratives from the following alaska Native groups: Tlingit, Eskimo (Yupic, Sugpiaq, Inupiaq), and Athabaskan Indians. Volume II, to be published within the next couple years will include 'folktales' from the Aleut, Haida, Tsimshian, ans Eyak linguistic groups" /.End ID]

[dailymothanon]

Yaaayy bear boys at Fort Ross 🐻 ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ this was literally them I would know trust me. Alaska busy getting that winter rest in! Cali is just watching. Dw about it. I’m very proud of this tho :)

I don’t really have context for it, nor the forget me nots, I just think about that one art piece I did of Alaska and forget me nots sometimes. They’re very poetic and symbolic! A good pick for a flower. But yeah, I have been doing a lot of research on Alaska natives again, for this I’ve been observing physical characteristics, so his design will change into being more Yknow, like his people

Another thing I’ve been reading on towards Alaska natives (specifically more so in Sugpiaq culture) is gender traditions, because I find it to be interesting! I’m thinking on making a separate post about that tho 😌 anyways, happy Native American heritage month

[acomradea]

Sketch of a Haida cargo ship off the coast of Xaaydaga Island in the Haida Gwaii, 2314 AD.

The Haida have become the masters of the North Pacific, transporting goods along the west coast of North America, as well as making the 6-8 week long trek in the summers across to the Yellow Sea Alliance (YSA). They have seen great success via combining algae diesel fuelled engines with junk rigged sails on a two mast schooner type ship. They are the main mover of goods and people from Port Baja (the southern most point the Haida bother to go), up to Seattle Bay, then Haida Gwaii and Terace serves as the central hub. Then will up to Sugpiaq, then to Adak (which serves as the main rest stop between Asia and North America), out to Yelizovo, and finally to Hokkaido.

Nunangat controls Sugpiaq and, in turn, transports goods along the northwest passage, down the east coast and even out to Iceland connecting Europe to the Americas. From Hokkaido, the YSA moves goods southward and out to India, and from Yelizovo, ancient Russian infrastructure takes tribal caravans deep into the Eurasian continent. As such, the Haida serve a vital role in what has been called "The Great World Ring," a trade road moving things across the entire globe. Many people have managed to circumnavigate the globe just by moving from trade ship to trade ship to caravan to trade ship. While perhaps the world isn't as prosperous as before The Flood Wars, it does not mean there is no global community.

[skyhighnotes]

What is the traditional dress style depicted in your blog avatar?

😊

It's a recreation of my dance regalia. A Sugpiaq Atkuk.

[souliloquy23]

I want to tell a story. Many know I was adopted at birth. I grew up outside my Aleut and Tlingit culture. Not sure if I would have grown up in the culture even if I stayed with birth parents. Not a judgment on them but how life has been for many growing up away from villages. When I was growing up I was told I was native. I thought nothing of it. When I was older I adopted a sort of pan-Indian view because I was disconnected from my tribes. I had this pride about being native. When I was in my early 20s I wanted to do a native program so you had to be enrolled. My mom asked at one time to enroll me in Aleut but I declined. I had went through this uncomfortable process of being somewhat embarrassed of my Aleut side. I thought Tlingit was "cooler." I have never told anyone that. Most tribes are matrillineal...you follow your mom or the family of your mother. But I immersed myself in Tlingit culture and history and enrolled. I have been at this stage in my life to learn what I can about my mother's side. It's complex as well. She grew up in king salmon which is central yupik and sugpiaq territory. But she is enrolled Aleut. I ultimately would like to know what island out family is from. Because whether I live to travel there one day or not I would like my ashes to be brought there to reconcile what ever trauma, grief and history that had me be shameful or shy away from that. That one of my children or grandchildren will pick up the culture. I am glad they are learning some Tlingit and raised in small town, community but I also hope for this reunion to my ancestors on my mother's side. I see all these beautiful images of different Aleutian islands and I think home. I know it's more than image. I know it's deeper than surface. I know it can be hard. Because living small town past 15 years has shown me the complexities of life and the richness. But I still see home and the beauty of the landscape.

[yourdailyqueer]

Storme Webber

Gender: Two spirit (she/they)

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1959

Ethnicity: First Nation (Sugpiaq - Alutiiq, Choctaw), black

Occupation: Artist, poet, curator, professor, producer

Note: In 2019 she was named a Seattle Living Legacy for building global awareness of the LGBTQ+, indigenous, Two Spirit, and Black populations of Seattle through her art, poetry, performances, and multimedia exhibits

[madsmilfelsen]

mads what is your hair care routine/secrets

be born with any amount of Sugpiaq genes

I’m actually very lazy about my hair, the most I do is blow dry it most weeks but I really like hot oil treatments (heat up water on the stove or in the microwave then set the oil bottle in it until optimal temp) and let that sit an hour or two, I can’t do it much longer than that unless I wash my hair three times. I use a conditioner bar that I bought at a local salon followed by 107 Beauty’s shampoo— my hair holds a lot of moisture so I have to wash the conditioner out or I get super greeeeasy. Otherwise the only products I use consistently are color wow dream coat and pop & lock— I have no volume so I go for shine

me with air dried hair or me when my native studies professor said he liked the craftsmanship of my nacaq (beaded headdress):

[armthearmour]

In honor of the recently passed indigenous people's day, I have decided to devote all of today's posts to indigenous weapons of North America, specifically those on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Art of Native America exhibit.

I open with a weapon little seen, the atlatl, this one fashioned by the Alutiiq/Sugpiaq of Kodiak Island, modern Alaska, United States.

[dailymothanon]

HAWAI’I ⁉️ This design was made by my girlfriend and I’ve wanted to draw her for quite some time and it goes so hard I think about it often, god bless her design skills 🙏 I hope y’all love this hawai’i design too cuz I dig it so much and and and uuh. Listen. She’s just so pretty

(history rant below btw)

alright alright I KNOW I talk about Alaska to death but I’m just real passionate sometimes, and I think alaska’s history is heavily disregarded, so this time I’m gonna talk about the Aleutian islands

to start off the natives of the Aleutian Islands are the Unangan and Sugpiaq so keep that in mind

To show y’all how devastating Russian contact was by itself for them, in over the course of just 50 years, the native population of the Aleutians dropped by 80 percent. EIGHTY PERCENT. By both violence and European disease

one of the biggest events that broke the Aleutian natives back of resistance was the Awa’Uq, or Refuge Rock Massacre. Literally devastating shit, there’s not even a definitive number to how many natives were killed, from the range of 300 - 3,000. Those people were all men women and children, man. What triggered this? No idea, I couldn’t find anything, it was just something they chose to do i guess. Some jumped to their deaths trying to escape, men were forced into slavery, and women and children are taken as hostages to ensure the men’s cooperation, terrible terrible stuff. This process was continued all throughout everywhere the Russians went in Alaska as well. Also, the bodies were never buried, they were just abandoned and disrespected and no one could even come back there from all the decay and smell.

Awa’Uq means “to become numb” or “where one becomes numb”

And in this event, it was caused by only 130 Russians. They suffered no casualties.

that massacre happened in 1784, btw, so to put perspective on that, this is the same year The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, establishing the United States as an independent and sovereign nation, so Alaska’s been around for quite some time

There were obviously more stuff but I think I should space these tidbits around in future posts and also cuz I’m too tired to type anymore currently 😌 uhhh. I apologize for being a lil more serious with this rant, again, I think Alaska’s history is too forgotten and overlooked as just a “oh Alaska was a part of Russia” and that’s all, and that makes me a little upset that that’s all we’re shrugged off as

Overall, I’d say, Alaska stopped having huge devastating events by the 1990s or early 2000s, but I think a huge fear of Alaska’s is that he is afraid of history like that jumping all out again, feeling all terrible like that, being dreadful of things going bad all over again. Especially because no one’s gonna help (perhaps that’s just what he thinks), unlike the Lower 48 who have each other, surrounded by people that could help, yknow? I like deep conversation sometimes guys

[mybebopsoul]

I love learning about different cultures! Source.  Popular    ho

[natbrut]

Take a moment today to read this incredible poem by Abigail Chabitnoy!

"On these islands hitherto since and still inhabited by 'real persons,' by 'we the people' / On these islands since looted and enslaved and saved / No trees are growing"

https://www.natbrut.com/abigail-chabitnoy

[likalinea]

A large group of orcas resting together gives a glimpse of the social ties these animals share with each other, Sugpiaq, Suungaaciq (Prince William Sound), Alaska. Photo by Craig Matkin. National Geographic, April 2005.

via @geoarchive_

https://www.instagram.com/likalinea/

[mademoiselleseraph]

"Alaskan Inuit" buddy, just say Inupiat. It's faster, it sounds cooler, and it's what we actually call ourselves

"Don't say Eskimo, say Inuit!" Okay, but you are remembering to include all the Yup'ik peoples who have also been referred to as Eskimo, right? You're remembering the Central Yup'iit and the Alutiq/Sugpiaq/Pacific Yup'ik people, and all the islanders and Siberian Yup'iit? What about the Chukchi? You're not just mislabeling all their distinct cultures as Inuit because it's easier and "close enough", right? That would kind of defeat the purpose of not saying Eskimo out of respect, wouldn't it?

And maybe it's just me, but when I know my ancestors (King Islanders who summered in Nome) probably had more contact and trading relationships with various Yup'ik nations than the people who lived all the way over in Nunavut.... I dunno, it's a little off-putting to me when people say I should favor an "Inuit" identity over an "Eskimo" one, regardless of which one is the respectable word.