Finding their own Dance: Reawakening the Alaskan Alutiiq Arts

FRIENDS OF FINDING THEIR OWN DANCE: REAWAKENING THE ALASKAN ALUTIIQ ARTS

Steven Alvarez, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Alaska Native Heritage Center

Lena Snow Amason, mask-maker, artist, director of Nuniaq Alutiiq Dancers, Old Harbor

Loren Anderson, artist & dancer, Public Programs Supervisor, ANHC

Susan Anderson, President / CEO, CIRI Foundation

Leo Ash, guitarist

Sally Ash, Alutiiq elder and native speaker, Nanwalek

Sperry Ash, Alutiiq dancer, choreographer, language specialist

Michael Beal, CEO, Seldovia Native Association, Inc.

Heather Beggs, Director, Pratt Museum, Homer

Melissa Berns, director, Nuniaq Alutiiq Dancers, Old Harbor

Lydia Black, author, historian

Brianna Cannon, Program Assistant, CIRI Foundation

Carl Christiansen, Jr., drum and visor maker, Old Harbor

Fred Christiansen, Chair, Kodiak Area Native Association

Janel Curry, Dean of Scholarship, Calvin College

Beth Dieleman Dykstra, grant-writer,Calvin College

April Laktonen Counceller, Alutiiq Language Manager, musician, Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak

Alfred Cratty, Jr., President, Old Harbor Tribal Council

Perry Eaton, artist, mask-maker

Danciel Garcia, Professor, Calvin College, filmmaker

Leslie Leyland Fields, Kodiak author

Sven Haakanson, Jr., Director, Alutiiq Museum and Archeological Repository, Kodiak

Zora Inga, director Nuniaq Alutiiq Dancers, Old Harbor

Leonard Kamerling, Project Consultant, film-maker, Professor UAF

Lois Konyndyk, grant-writer, Calvin College

Dave and Darlene Kuiper, pastor, Anchorage Crosspoint Church

Gabrielle LeDoux, Alaska State Representative, District 36

Peter Lind, artist, Homer

Darlene Lind, artist, Homer

Chuna McIntye, Yup’ik dancer, story-teller

Dennis Metrokin, President, Koniag, Inc.

Rhoda Moonin, Nanwalek Dancers

Steven Niedzielski, Video Producer, Calvin College

Ole Olsen, Alutiiq businessman

Lydia Olsen, dancer

Gloria O'Neill, President/CEO, Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.

June Pardue, dancer, choreographer

Anne Remick, Grants Officer, Alaska Humanities Forum

Vincent Scott, formerly Quality Programs Manager, ANHC, now: National Museum for the American Indian - Smithsonian

Helen Simeonoff, artist, historian

Andy Teuber, Vice President, Koniag, Inc.

Glen VanAndel, professor, Calvin College

James VandenBosch, editor, professor, Calvin College

Gerry VanKooten, geologist, Calvin College

Dean Ward, Academic Dean, Calvin College

Gary Watson, Shun' aq Tribe of Kodiak

Betsy Webb, Curator of Collections, Pratt Museum, Homer

Violet Yeaten, Director, Port Graham Dancers

Zwiep, Ted and Myra, supporters