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A Qayaq to Carry Us

Sugpiat people come home to Kodiak Island to learn and build Indigenous knowledge near ancestral petroglyphs. Merging Indigenous knowledge with western science, Dr. Sven Haakanson and other Sugpiat people in Akhiok pass along the ingenuity of traditional knowledge in a living context to young Sugpiat while building a kayak from wood gathered on the treeless beaches of Cape Alitak.

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A Qayaq to Carry Us Episode 3 | 12m 1s

The food, the singing, and the dancing at the Akhiok Kids Camp is a reminder of a dynamic and vital present for four generations of Alutiiq families.

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