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rapeculturerealities · 5 months
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Two Women Died on an Alaska Mayor’s Property. No One Has Ever Been Charged. — ProPublica
Kirk and Norton, both Inupiaq, had each dated sons of the former borough mayor, and the sons had previously been convicted of beating each of them. One of the sons had admitted to strangling Kirk twice before. Another pleaded guilty to kicking Norton in the stomach when she was six months pregnant.
No one has ever been charged with a crime in connection to the deaths.
In a state where women are 2.5 times more likely than the national average to be killed by a man and Alaska Native women are especially at risk, elected leaders here have repeatedly pledged action. The Department of Justice declared a rural law enforcement emergency in Alaska following a 2019 report by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica on glaring lapses in local policing. Two years later, the governor created a state council on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons, and in 2022, new investigators were hired to solve cases like Norton’s.
Unexplained holes in the investigations into the deaths of Kirk and Norton call into question this commitment, a review by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica found. More than that, the events leading up to the women’s deaths illustrate how police, prosecutors and judges here have regularly given pass after pass to people accused of domestic violence and strangulation.
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nonspeakers-r-us · 11 months
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Being Nonspeaking and Indigenous
One thing that I have struggled with most of my life is feeling like I don't belong to the communities I am a part of, because I cannot verbally speak my language(s). I am a Sámi and Inupiaq person who grew up with both my cultures being a big part of my life. In Sámi culture, one of the biggest things that connects you to your community is being able to speak the language. I can still understand both spoken Northern Sámi and Inupiaq fluently, but I cannot speak out loud, and I can only use Swedish and English on my AAC. My spelling is pretty bad in Northern Sámi. I can only write Inupiaq semi-well, and I can only write it in qaliujaaqpait (Latin script). This leaves me feeling like I'm not "Sámi enough" or "Inupiaq enough" to use those labels for myself. Many people in both my communities understand this, and have been very kind and understanding. There are many reasons that someone can't speak the language of their community, and disability is just one of them. Just my thoughts today.
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superinjun · 9 days
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Magic Seal
Susie Silook (Yup’ik, Inupiaq)
walrus ivory, baleen, ink, maple, brass
“I’ve used ancestral imagery and forms in this piece. In our (Yupik and Inupiaq) stories, humans visit animals (who are all sentient beings) that live in the sea in houses, and remove their fur coats and appear as humans. Hence the “Yua” or man, as depicted in the carved face. The ribs are depicted by the red area, and is thought to portray shamanic vision. The baleen inlay represents the spine. The seal outline represents the Spirit of the Seals.
In our beliefs, a man and seal can have an ongoing relationship based on respect, where the seal, in each reincarnation, offers him/herself to the same hunter repeatedly.”
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doodlesnoff · 11 days
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Siqiññaatchiaq 😌 the February draft that wanted me to finish it randomly today
My first hand study, tips and advice always appreciated!
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qbdatabase · 6 months
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Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America ed. by Nora Shalaway Carpenter Think you know what rural America is like? Discover a plurality of perspectives in this enlightening anthology of stories that turns preconceptions on their head. Gracie sees a chance of fitting in at her South Carolina private school, until a "white trash"-themed Halloween party has her steering clear of the rich kids. Samuel's Tejano family has both stood up to oppression and been a source of it, but now he's ready to own his true sexual identity. A Puerto Rican teen in Utah discovers that being a rodeo queen means embracing her heritage, not shedding it. . . .
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popculty · 5 days
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The council encouraged producers to include Iñupiaq words and learn about the meaning behind traditional Alaska Native stories. Tahbone said they even helped choose most of the Iñupiaq names for characters in the town. The council also encouraged including trigger warnings for the show because some episodes involve missing and murdered Indigenous people. “We advised about leaving traditional parts in and taking other elements of the story out just to maintain the integrity of the story and kind of keeping it true, but also kind of holding it close,” she said. “It’s kind of like not wanting to give away too much, because people who aren’t from our area who weren’t raised in our culture, can misunderstand or just not have any clue what’s being said.” Tahbone is also a traditional Inuit tattoo artist and helped design some of the tattoos on screen. She said the show is a “melting pot” of unique cultures and includes people from other Arctic communities like Greenland and Canada.
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everydayesterday · 1 year
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I think I’ve posted this before, but there was just an article published in Scientific American that’s behind a paywall and basically just repeats what’s below.  What fascinates me is how the math is done using the numerals.  
Anchorage Daily News, 2022-11-06:
Almost 30 years ago, a group of Kaktovik students invented a numbering system that reflected the way they counted in Iñupiaq and made math more intuitive for them. Soon, anyone in the world will be able to type Kaktovik numerals on a computer. [...]  
Most countries use the Hindu-Arabic base-10 numbering system where numbers range from 0 to 9. But in Iñupiaq — as well as other Inuit and Yup’ik languages — the numbers go from 0 to 19, which makes it a base-20 system. [...]  
"The Iñupiaq word for the number 20 is iñuiññaq, which represents a whole person," Judkins said. "You have all 20 appendages — your 10 fingers and your 10 toes. A lot of the classroom activities that we use now with this numbering system is in relation to those body parts and those appendages." [...]
Kaktovik students came up with digits from zero through 19, composed of straight strokes joined at sharp angles that you can write without lifting a pen. [...]
“We didn’t want them to look like any other numbers,” Solomon said. “It was our whole math class that did it together.” [...]
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arcticmemoriesbook · 6 months
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During the early times, in the long dark winter months, the Inupiaq of northern Alaska spent many of these cold evening gathered together to dance and hear stories from their elders. I complied the stories from them in this book.
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higherentity · 1 year
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cowboy-inuk · 1 year
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My main blog is more like a personal diary for me, but I’ll miss Native Twitter—I met so many cool people on there and made so many friends… So I made this side blog so I could feel less self conscious about potentially sharing this account with my mutuals over there lmao
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taiga-seeker · 2 years
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Something about the mist…
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jmivorycarvings · 2 years
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Ivory hummingbird earrings
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trickstermoonjuice · 3 months
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superinjun · 7 days
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Renewal
Susie Silook (Yup’ik, Inupiaq)
ivory, baleen, acrylic ink, sapele wood. 21” x 3.75” x 3.75”
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alanshemper · 5 months
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Kirk and Norton, both Inupiaq, had each dated sons of the former borough mayor, and the sons had previously been convicted of beating each of them. One of the sons had admitted to strangling Kirk twice before. Another pleaded guilty to kicking Norton in the stomach when she was six months pregnant.
No one has ever been charged with a crime in connection to the deaths.
11 Nov 2023
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