Life in the Arctic

[Randi]

Found a few photos of the reindeer process:

https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islan ... a%3A104165 Lassoing reindeer. Siberia.

https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islan ... a%3A103804 Hoisting the reindeer on board of ship.

https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islan ... a%3A103946 Carrying Reindeer up from the Beach, July 4th 1892.

https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islan ... a%3A103981 Reindeer Station. Port Clarence

Also found a photo of walrus onboard the Bear 1891-1892

https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islan ... a%3A103947 Walrus on deck Cutter "Bear" Bering Sea.

[Randi]

Voices from the Front Lines of a Changing Bering Sea: An Indigenous Perspective for the 2019 Arctic Report Card

Inupiat Eskimo Dictionary

[Randi]

When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble
Against the backdrop of climate change, the delicate underwater ecology of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands is hurting from declines in otters.

Without otters to keep them in check, populations of sea urchins have boomed, carpeting the sea floor in spiny spheres that mow down entire forests of kelp. Now, even the living, red-algae reefs on which the swirling stands of kelp once stood are in peril.

“These long-lived reefs are disappearing before our eyes,” said Doug Rasher, a marine ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine and the study’s first author.

Softened by warming and acidifying waters, the coral-like structures have quickly succumbed to the urchins’ tiny teeth, which can annihilate years of fragile algae in a single bite.

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

Another place where the kelp farmers would be welcome, though how you corral urchins amongst the corals sounds like a pretty big job

[Randi]

Cousins-Alutiiq Word of the Week-November 29th

[AvastMH]

That's an interesting one Randi (I'm still in contact with one or two cousins, but a whole branch seem to have fallen off the family tree )

[Randi]

Thanks for the comment - and thus reminding me to post the next

Song-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 6th

[AvastMH]

That's a good word too. I wondered about 'Orthodox hymns' but Alaska belonged to Russia - silly me!

(Got to make a silly joke 'THE PRIEST KNOWS MANY SONGS.' does that mean that the Priest Rocks?)

[Michael]

[Randi]

[Randi]

UYAMILLQUAQ: Necklace-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 13th

[Randi]

Dinosaurs found in Alaska's Prince Creek formation likely remained in the region when it snowed during the winter. (Julio Lacerda)

How Dinosaurs Thrived in the Snow:
Discoveries made in the past decades help show how many species coped with cold temperatures near both poles

[Randi]

YAASIIK: Box-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 20th

[Randi]

AGYAQ, MIT’AQ (KAR): Star-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 27th

[Randi]

A bit late

[Randi]

https://alaska-native-news.com/category ... -the-week/

CISLLAT – PEG CALENDAR
PAAPUKA GUI CISLLANGQ’RTAALLIA. – MY GRANDMOTHER HAD A PEG CALENDAR.

Charting the passage of time was once a relative process. Alutiiq people noted the seasons by following changes in the natural environment and in the economic and social activities that accompanied the yearly cycle. With the introduction of Russian Orthodoxy, however, the Alutiiq faithful adopted Russian-style peg calendars to track their days.

[Randi]

Nation’s Sole Heavy Icebreaker Arrives in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for First Visit Since 2013

[Michael]

[Randi]

Giant Storms, Big Waves and Chilly Winds
Alaska went big on New Year’s.
First, on New Year’s Eve 2020, a superstorm spun its way through the North Pacific Ocean and into the Aleutian Islands.