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A Qayaq to Carry Us
Lived Knowledge
The incredible engineering of traditional Alutiiq boats.
Stories in Stone
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.
Stories in Stone
A Qayaq to Carry Us Episode 1 | 7m 3s
The stories cut into the granite of Kodiak Island reveal themselves as these petroglyphs face an uncertain future.
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