Voices of Our Ancestors

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Voices of Our Ancestors

In his presentation for the Smithsonian Spotlight series hosted by the Arctic Studies Center at the Anchorage Museum, scholar and author Roy Agloinga discusses a new dictionary of Qawairaq Iġałuik Inupiaq, the endangered language of his home village of White Mountain. Agloinga hopes it will be "a resource to reawaken my people through traditional knowledge and Inupiat definitions of place and relationships." This event was sponsored by the Recovering Voices Program, an initiative led by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

5 min 7 sec

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