Readings & Press

Sugpiaq Alutiiq Overview

UAF Alaska Policy Frontiers graduate course with Dr. Willie Hensley, Zoom, February 2021

Fire-Themed Stories and Metaphors in Alutiiq Storytelling

Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska, February 2020

Alutiiq Relationship to Bear

4H Bear Autopsy Workshop, Kodiak, Alaska, February 2020

History of Kodiak Alutiiq Language Revitalization

ANA Language Workshop, Kodiak, Alaska, September 2019

Alutiiq Wedding Ceremony for Candace Branson & David Tucker, 

Kizhuyak Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska, April 2018

Alutiiq Regional Collaborations, Being Good Relatives Gathering, 

First Alaskans Institute, Anchorage, Alaska, November 2018

Alutiiq Language Poetry & Story Reading

Kodiak Public Library, Kodiak, Alaska, February 2018

Keep Talking Film Screening Panel, Indigenous Film Festival

National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC Feb 2018

History of Alutiiq Education & Alutiiq Cultural Orientation

KIBSD Teacher In-service Trainings, September 2016

Alutiiq Cultural Orientation

to various audiences: Arctic Care, USCG, KIBSD, KANA employees, 2014-2016

Kodiak Poetry Reading

Community Outreach Committee, Kodiak College, Kodiak, Alaska, 2014

Ancestral Ways in New Words, Alaska Center for the Book Poetry Reading, 

UAA Bookstore, Anchorage, November 2013

Liitukut Sugpiat’stun: Exploring Kodiak Alutiiq Literature Through Core Values

Kodiak Rural Forum, January 2013

Collaborative Language Revitalization, Instruction & Leadership

Bilingual Multicultural Education Equity Conference (BMEEC), Anchorage, Alaska, April 2012

Exploring Alutiiq Literature

Alutiiq Museum Fall Lecture Series, Kodiak, Alaska, August 2011

Blending Indigenous Story with Science

Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums National Conf., Portland, Oregon, December 2008

Blending Indigenous Story with Science

Worlds Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE), 

Melbourne, Australia, December 2008

Alutiiq Collaborative Leadership

World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE), 

University of Waikato, New Zealand, November 2005

Alutiiq Storytelling Workshop

Creating Culturally Responsive Schools Institute, Kodiak, Alaska, June 2005

Red Cedar of Afognak Book Signing

Next Page Bookstore, Kodiak & at Native Village of Port Lions Tribal Hall, October 2004

Cleansing Stone Ceremony

Esgarlluku Taquka'aq - Awakening Bear Celebration, Kodiak, Alaska, May 2004

Alutiiq Region Education Summit Report

First Alaskans Summit, Anchorage, Alaska, November 2002

Alutiiq Language Revitalization 

KANA/Koniag Regional Roundtable, Kodiak, Alaska, January 2002

Alutiiq Cultural Sustainability

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, October 2000

Alutiiq Cultural Sustainability

UAF Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative Workshop, Kodiak, Alaska, October 1999

Alaska State Libraries, Archives, & Museums Friday Bulletin Website, New resources from the Alutiiq Museum: children’s book and tool identification, 2021

Koniag Cultural Connection Website, Iqsani’s Trout Hook children’s book, 2021
Alaska Book Week Website, Alaska Center for the Book, Iqsani’s Trout Hook, 2021
Alutiiq Museum releases children’s book

Kodiak Daily Mirror, September 8, 2021

Museum gets grant to publish two books on Alutiiq history, 

Kodiak Daily Mirror, October 8, 2020
Grants supports development of Alutiiq history books for Youth, 

Alutiiq Museum Press Release, October 2020
Alutiiq Museum releases new e-books for app, 

KMXT Radio Kodiak, June 2017

Drabek appointed to Indigenous seat on Alaska Historical Commission, 

KMXT Radio Kodiak, February 2016

Alutiiq Museum welcomes Alisha Drabek as new Director, 

KMXT Radio Kodiak, August 2013

Alutiiq Studies Program wraps up inaugural year, 

KMXT Radio Kodiak, May 2013

Alutiiq storytelling, KMXT Radio, 

Off the Shelf Literature Show, Jun 2012

Doctoral student examines Alutiiq literature in detail, 

Kodiak Daily Mirror, August 2011

Kodiak High School adding Alutiiq Language class, 

KMXT Radio Kodiak, December 2010

Red Cedar of Afognak Book & American Book Award interview, 

KMXT Radio Kodiak, August 2005

Red Cedar of Afognak Book & American Book Award Interview, 

KNBA Radio Anchorage, August 2005

Children’s book teaches Alutiiq history, language and culture, 

Kodiak Daily Mirror - Native Roots, February 2005

2005 HAIL Celebration, 

Sharing Our Pathways AKRSI UAF Newsletter. Summer 2005.