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Unangan (Aleut) child, Alaska, by Shipeshots
#unangan#alaska#america#north america#traditional fashion#traditional clothing#cultural clothing#folk clothing
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Eagle Bear Face to Face
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I did not know a single thing about World War II in the Aleutians or the internment of indigenous peoples!
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Aleut/Unangan language Unangam Tunuu:
yagakuqing - I love, I rely on
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John Hoover, Unangan (Aleut) and American, 1919–2011 - Volcano Woman #1, 1990. Wood, metal hinges, and pigment; closed: 51 x 12 ¼ inches, open: 51 x 24 ¼ inches.
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The Spectacle(d Cormorant) - an informative post about an underrated extinct bird
(Artwork by me. Halfly based on the artwork by Joseph Wolf.)
Just something out of the ordinary from before. I am getting tired from posting all those comics and stuff on here, so here's a repost of my depiction of one of my all-time favorite extinct birds - the life, the moment, the spectacle itself - the spectacled (or Pallas's) cormorant, as well as a bunch of facts about it below this because I care about this bird so much and will protect it with all my life if it still existed.
You may ask, why am I so into this nerdy-looking bird? It's not like it's THAT special or anything - we still have at least 40 other cormorant species alive on earth - 3 of them in the same genus as the spectacled cormorant.
The reason is simple - no one ever talks about it or even has an idea on what it is, even though humans were the sole cause of its extinction. (And believe it or not, cormorant culling IS still a thing, but that's a different story for now.)
(Specimen kept at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands.)
Large, stupid, clumsy, ludicrous in looks. That was how others, including Georg Steller, the discoverer of the bird, described the spectacled cormorant. It was, perhaps, the largest of all cormorants known to exist, rivalling the Galápagos flightless cormorant in length, but was way heavier than the latter. Due to its large size, it was probably flightless, but studies of its wings have shown that it was more likely reluctant to do so due to its lack of natural predators (besides Arctic foxes) while residing in its former habitat - the Commander/Komandorski Islands in Kamchatka Krai of Russia. Occasionally, some of these birds would get lost and end up on the Kamchatka Peninsula, which led to its consumption by the locals.
However, it wasn't until the 1820s when their extinction was hastened. The Russian-American Company started to transfer Unangan (Aleut) people to the islands, and, to no surprise, they found this cormorant easy to hunt. As Steller said on his journey in 1741, the spectacled cormorant was also rather delicious, unlike most other cormorants. Along with how it was abundant on the Commander Islands, this was most likely the exact reason why the Unangan people consumed it whenever they could not catch enough fish to sell or feed their families.
That marked the end of the legacy of the spectacled cormorant. It vanished from the islands and the world in the 1850s, and was never heard from anyone ever again.
(Artwork by J. G. Keulemans.)
The reason why it might have been forgotten by man was probably due to there only being six known specimens of this bird collected (all apparently by the same person, Governor Kuprianof), and only one or two of those specimens are currently up for display in the whole world.
The spectacled cormorant died like the dodo, but unlike the dodo, it was quickly forgotten by the people who caused its rapid extinction. By the time we wanted to care about it, it was already gone.
170+ years have passed. People like me still remember this bird, wanting to do anything to bring it back to life, or just imagining it while it was still in its glory - plummeting into the cold seas to catch a mouthful of fish, as it clumsily swims back to the shore to dry its wings. A beautiful bird that met a rather depressing fate.
#extinct birds#bird art#spectacled cormorant#recently extinct#extinct animals#i can't draw backgrounds#extinction#lineless art#digital artwork#informative post#fact post#bird facts#cormorant#seabirds
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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
#wttt#welcome to the table#welcome to the statehouse#ben brainard#wttt fan art#wttt alaska#wttt fanart#wttt headcanons#wttsh#wttsh alaska#wttt facts#wttsh headcanons#wttsh fanart#wttt hawaii#wttsh hawaii
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Doll profiles for my modern dolls! Since my collection has changed much over the past few months. Under the cut because this will be long!
Most of my modern dolls aren't canon character dolls, and any who are (namely Corinne) are still a little bit divorced from their canon counterparts, because I have fun with extrapolating storylines for my own dolls, and trying to make them fit in alongside their new friends. On to the bios!
Lena Grzegorczyk (she/her)
Lena is the oldest doll in my collection, and therefore I think it's apt that she is my oldest character. She's 14, and enjoys learning new things. She loves to read and draw, and she just got a guitar for Christmas! She is also obsessed with vintage fashion. Her dream job is to work with textiles someday, in any capacity. Lena's favorite color is red!
Tsukiko Matsubara (she/her)
Tsukiko is happy, confident 13 year old! She loves experimenting and trying new things, and her favorite thing she owns is her little science kit. She's fascinated by chemistry, and would love to do something with that someday! For now, she spends her time messing with her camera, and doing fun (safe) experiments in her kitchen. Tsukiko has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which often has her using hand-crutches. Her favorite color is turquoise!
Divya Patel (she/her)
Divya is a sweet, caring 12 year old. She is on the local youth's swim team, and she enjoys painting and sewing, and her favorite class at school is art class! She had a blast with the pottery unit. She's not quite sure what she wants to do someday, but she has plenty of time to decide! Divya is half Gujarati, and half Afro-Brazilian. She's good friends with both Tsukiko, her classmate, and Lena, who she met at an after-school art club last year. Her favorite color is light pink!
Andrés Fuentes (he/him)
Andrés is really excited that he made it onto the boy's soccer team. He just came out as trans, and was worried that he wouldn't be allowed to participate. Andrés just turned 13, and in his spare time he loves to play the drums, which annoys his family to no end. He does brilliantly in maths, which makes him think he might be suited to something like accounting, but he hasn't thought too much on the subject. His family is Puerto-Rican, and he speaks Spanish at home. He was also born hard-of-hearing in his right ear, and he's working towards becoming fluent in ASL. His favorite color is green.
Nihkko Lehtinen (he/him)
Nihkko just transferred to this school district this year, and he has found a good friend in Andrés on the soccer team. He's 12 years old, and outside of playing soccer, he's looking forward to this year's school production, which he wants to audition for. He loves to sing and dance, and wants to put those skills to use! His family is Saami and Tatar, which makes him really proud! His favorite color is yellow!
Esme Adrianov (she/they)
Esme is a quiet, stubborn 12 year old. She doesn't move outside of her social circle much, but she deeply values the friends that she does have. Despite being rather shy, she isn't afraid to stand up for her and her friends when needed. They enjoy running on the track team, and they love baking and experimenting with fun, new recipes! Her family is Unangan, and her parents raised her to be really, really proud of that fact. She is good friends with Nihkko, Andrés, and Nanea. Their favorite color is blue!
Nanea Jeon (she/her)
Nanea is a sweet, confident 12 year old! She loves biking around town with Esme, and working in the gardens with her parents on the weekend. She loves to write as well, and she's written a few short stories that she is extremely proud of! Nanea is half Hawaiian and half Korean, and she greatly looks forward to when she can see her cousins, who all live so far away! Her favorite color is light orange!
Amarah Adeyemi (she/her)
Amarah is a friendly, confident 12 year old! She draws a lot in her spare time, and enjoys creating new clothing designs in her sketchbook- it's her dream someday to have her own clothing line! Otherwise, she enjoys maths and history, and she loves hanging out with her friends after school at the park. She's Nigerian, and her family moved to the US when she was young. She grew up speaking Yoruba, along with English, at home. She's close with Corinne, who she met in 3rd grade. Her favorite color is purple!
Corinne Ziyì (子义) Tan (she/her)
Corinne is a kind and resilient 12 year old. In her free time she enjoys winter sports such as skiing and ice skating. After school she enjoys helping around her mother's restaurant or going to the park with Amarah. Her favorite subject is history- she finds it interesting and engaging. She thinks she'd like to go on someday to further her studies in the humanities- her name, Ziyì, means someone who will stand with righteousness, and she feels that it fits her and her goals very well! But all that is a long way off. For now she's happy to spend her time as she does. Her favorite color is mint!
Eloise Gruenberg (she/her)
Eloise is an introverted and studious 12 year old. She loves school- she loves learning new things, and challenging herself. Outside of school, she loves to dance. She finds the movements therapeutic, and it helps her recenter herself. Eloise is half black, and half Ashkenazi Jewish, and her faith is something that is really important to her. She was born with albinism, which affects her ability to see clearly, so she wears glasses and uses a cane when she's out. She finds that brightly colored clothes are her favorite- and she enjoys putting together fun outfits in the mornings. Her favorite color is red!
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Innu ᓀᐃᓚᐤ : a subsection of the wider Cree Nation, located & Native to Eastern Canada, such as Labrador and Quebec. They were historically enemies with the Inuit. Their language is part of the Algonquian language family & is a dialect of the Cree language.
Inuit ᐃᓄᐃᑦ : a tribe Native to the Arctic regions of North America, such as Nunavut. Northwest territories, and Yukon, but there are also Inuit in Greenland. They were historically enemies with the Cree and the Innu. Their languages are part of the Inuit–Yupik–Unangan language family.
#look even our syllabics are different#inspired by my previous Algonquin/Algonquian post#we are different but its so common to see ppl get us mixed up we are two different tribes!
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ok since a couple people were wondering in the tags I'll explain where I referenced Sokka and Yue's outfits from here under the cut :]
for Sokka I mostly referenced Aleut/Alutiiq/Unangan clothes (think Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Northwest Coast - thereabouts)
for Yue I referenced Haida/Tlingit/Northwest Coast clothes, specifically this gorgeous apron and shawl combo from the Stonington Gallery which u should soooo check out. I chose this inspo for Yue cus A) its gorge and B) there were like clearly Northwest inspired Totem Poles at the Northern Water Tribe so I wanted to include that element in my pre-uni designs instead of just Mongolian/Siberian elements (which I do loooove seeing in Yue fanart btw iykyk)
as with like. ALL of my atla fashion art I've clearly taken extreme creative liberties with the clothes, because essentially they're fantasy setting clothes and I'm not gonna act like they're not lol. you should def research Northwest Coast clothing if you're into clothes like I am tho because there's plenty of historical resources and modern artists out there
Also while I'm here... go watch Sgaawaay K'unna >:) its good
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Inuit: group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskaleut.
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#Willow and Unangan Tunuu
warnings: cussing (one curse word)
posted: Tuesday, 14th March, 2023
@lokis-knives
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i sign off my posts as "thanks, alaska."
this is mainly because i want to go by a fake name, but also beause i care deeply for my home state.
today, joe fucking biden approved the willow project: a huge oil project by conoco phillips that will destroy the north slopes of my home state, alaska.
this will hurt our native communities, as no money will go to their community. and a language native to our native alaskans, Unangan Tunuu, will be at danger.
only 100 native speakers of this language are still alive.
i am trying to preserve this language.
if anybody is interested in learning the basics of the language, below is a website that is set in alaska that has good lessons on the language.
happy learning.
thanks,
alaska
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Spirit Transformation
Nicholas Galanin
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Let's do another language poll
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Insight into Inuktitut (/ɪˈnʊktɪtʊt/)
What is the language called in English and the language itself?
– The language is called Inuktitut in English and ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ in the language itself.
– There are 4 main dialects of Inuktitut, divided divided on the basis of location: Qikiqtaaluk nigiani (South Baffin), Nunavimmiutitut (Quebec), Inuttitut (Labrador), Inuktun (Thule). The dialect most used in media is Qikiqtaaluk nigiani.
Where is the language spoken?
– Inuktitut is spoken in Northern Canada and Alaska. Some speakers can also be found in Greenland.
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How many people speak the language?
– Are are about 40,000 speakers of Inuktitut.
Which language family does it belong to? What are some of its relative languages?
– Inuktitut is considered Inuit–Yupik–Unangan > Inuit > Inukitut. It’s closest relative languages are Greenlandic, Invialuktin, and Ilñupiaq.
What writing system does the language use?
– It uses Inuktitut syllabics (Qaniujaaqpait) and the Latin script. Qaniujaaqpait is generally used in Quebec and South Baffin, and the Latin script is used in Labrador and Greenland.
– Sample text from Wikipedia Inukitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ) ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᐅᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᖓᐅᑎᖃᕐᒪᑕ. ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖏᑦ ᐊᔾᔨᒌᙱᑦᑑᑎᐅᒐᓗᐊᖅᑐᑎᒃ ᓄᓇᓖᑦ ᒪᓕᒃᖢᒋᑦ, ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᓐ ᐃᓚᐅᓪᓗᓂ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕆᔭᐅᔪᖅ ᐅᐊᓕᓂᖅᐸᓯᖓᓂᕐᒥᐅᑕᐅᔪᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᒥ. ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᓐ ᖃᓕᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑎᑐᑦ ᐃᓅᔨᖓᔪᖅᑎᑐᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖃᖅᑐᑦ ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑎᑑᖓᙱᑦᑐᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ.
What kind of grammatical features does the language have?
– Inuktitut is a polysynthetic and agglutinative SOV language with 4 persons (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 3rd person different**), 3 numbers (singular, dual, and plural), 7 tenses (see here for details), 3 voices (indicative, causative, and passive), 3 moods (indicative, conditional, and subjunctive), and 2 verb categories (specific and non-specific). It also has definiteness as well as dubitative and frequentative affixes.
** When there are two unspecified persons in a sentence (ex: he left because he’s tired), the first he is in 1st person, and the second is considered to be 3rd person different.
What does the language sound like?
The vowel values of Inuktitut are /a/ /aː/ /i/ iː/ /u/ /uː/
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What do you personally find interesting about the language?
– I’ve always really loved how Qaniujaaqpait looks, and I really loved looking at the grammar of this language, too! There were lots of thing that I hadn’t seen before, and the whole language felt really cohesive, new-to-me, and refreshing! I also like how it sounds.
– In conclusion -- and I can’t believe how it took me this long to realize it -- Inuktitut is one of those languages that just makes me happy (like Romanian and Icelandic).
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1-Eskimo child
2-Eskimo drummer
3-Inuit woman with child. 1900
4-Inuit woman, Nowadluk, with long hair
Eskimo/Inuit
Eskimo is an exonym used to refer to two closely related Indigenous peoples: the Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Greenlandic Inuit, and the Canadian Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third group, the Aleut, which inhabit the Aleutian Islands, are generally excluded from the definition of Eskimo. The three groups share a relatively recent common ancestor, and speak related languages belonging to the Eskimo–Aleut language family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo
Inuit
Inuit (/ˈɪnjuɪt/; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskaleut. Inuit Sign Language is a critically endangered language isolate used in Nunavut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit
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