Full title: Savaktugut suli Piuraaqtugut / aglaktik Arnam, Tupaggaaqlu = We work and we play / written by Marie N. Blanchett and Martha Teeluk ; illustrated by Paschal Afcan.
Title taken from verso. View of girls playing games using makeshift springboards in Barrow, Alaska, with buildings in background. Also from verso: "Colleen Kignak Alred, Mary Jane Aveoganna, Donna Kain Johnston. P[oin]t Barrow." 1960's?...
Alex "Smiley" and Trefim Andrew visiting their cousin Lydia Olympic. Trefim is sitting inside the Chevron Blazo gas box. This photograph was taken in Igiugig.
The notebook is a diary of a young Inupiat school girl named Alva Nashoalook, who relates events in her daily life in Icy Cape. The dates given are June [27], 1912 through April 1, 1913 Subjects include walrus and seal hunting, trapping, reindeer,...
Note on verso of image: "The first section of this building was the classroom; the middle section was our undercover play space." Children identified by number as follows: 1) Harold Gene, age 11; 2) Alex Sinyou, age 12; 3) Judith Schoanover, age 6;...
View over the housetops, looking toward the school and shed up on hill; also shows retaining wall of cedar around play ground; according to the teacher, Tenakee "exists because of the mineral health springs"
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska 10th and East G - - privies and shacks predominate in this scene. Poor housing is one of the major factors in the high degree of illness of children under 10 years of age in this portion of...
Street scene, showing two men unloading wood from a horse drawn wagon; two children play on the boardwalk in front of building with sign reading, "Andrews, Photographer"
Title taken from image. Men, women and children in front of Elk's Hall with signs seeking home rule for Alaska.
Signs in image:
This is our nation. Why may we not govern it?
Home Rule. Our birthright.
Uncle Sam: We are American...