University of Alaska Museum of the North- amazing! 💜 The whole family having a blast

🎶Idit-idit-Iditarod trail 🎶 love the ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage!

Iditarod ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage- so fun!

🎶Idit-idit-Iditarod trail 🎶 love the ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage!

For funsies, my qual exams were in 1) Native American History 2) 20th century US 3) Histories of Captivity & Incarceration

Finding it interesting to put together my cv as an independent scholar!

I saw the cutest/nicest thing today- my 1st grader was in the school play and during the play one kiddo forgot their line and another kiddo leaned over and whispered the line to them so they could say it. So sweet 🥹

Plugging this here to help my daughter- if you want Girl Scout Cookies I have a link- message me! Ships anywhere in the US 🍪

Plugging this here to help my daughter- if you want Girl Scout Cookies I have a link- message me! Ships anywhere in the US 🍪

Amazing news about Alaska Native language revitalization and integration in Alaska pedagogy 🙌

Late summer institute for K-12 social studies & language arts teachers- hosted by the American Antiquarian Society. Travel and a stipend. Please check it out or share!

Hey skystorians and Native studies 👋 American Philosophical Society has an a fantastic grant funding program through the Phillips Fund for Native American research. This fund has supported me several times for Alaska oral history research I’m helping to get the word out to apply by March 2! 🗃️

but in all seriousness another good way to honor Remembrance Day today would be to buy and read Holly Miowak Guise’s book Alaska Native Resilience about WW2 forced removal and internment of Unangax people from the Aleutians

“A woman, who testified at Maxwell’s ‘21 criminal trial, said in a lawsuit that she was 13 years old when she met Epstein &Maxwell at the school’s annual summer Interlochen Arts Camp in ‘94. She says they began a relationship that started w/ grooming &led to sexual abuse.” apple.news/Aqgk2efM5Sti...

“It was the first ruling in North Carolina where endometriosis was recognized as an ADA disability. ‘Not only does it validate hundreds of millions of women's experiences that this pain is real, but it also gives them something to look to legally,’” USA Today article apple.news/AaWNbYlXTRmq...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Sharing some exciting news- some brightness- my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II published by @uwapress.uw.edu has received the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives! Arigaa! Thank you for engaging in AK Native history!

Some good news today!! Also Denver Public Library is amazing! Not surprised about the prize though - the book is really good!!

Sharing some exciting news- some brightness- my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II published by @uwapress.uw.edu has received the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives! Arigaa! Thank you for engaging in AK Native history!

I asked my spouse if he enjoys learning Inupiatun as like a third language- he said we need my mom to visit more. She claims to not speak it but then the phrases she says during random circumstances always crack me up

"It shouldn't be acceptable for this art to be put alongside these real pieces," he said. "It chews up and it spits out art made by other people." An artists performance protest and a call to recognize artists as the people who create the art rather than AI regurgitation

One week after Granger’s protest, UAF’s student government, ASUAF, unanimously passed a resolution against the use of AI art in UAF’s art department.

I’m excited to see Inupiatun used in describing the Super Bowl- Let’s go Nasuk! Arigaa!

native village of barrow wishing their tribal member, brandon pili, good luck for his first super bowl appearance tomorrow! we got an alaskan native in the big game, y’all! 🙌🏼💙💚

It is kind of crazy that Alaska has more athletes in the winter Olympics than entire countries. And not just warm weather countries! There are more Olympians just from Anchorage than the Icelandic Olympic Team, despite Iceland have a larger population than Anchorage.

High praise- my kiddo brought a mini lemon cake to school and shared with friends and they told her they don’t want to eat another cake ever again 🥹

Homemade lemon sheet cake with lemon buttercream frosting 🧁 🍋 #bakingsky

The thing with writing is that the dump document is seemingly the same length as the product itself. It’s like sculpting clay and saving the scraps for something else or in case you need more later. It takes a while to get used to a dump document but with time and practice it’s easier to let go.

“APRIL 30, 2025 Army Website Removes Profile of Native American Military Service Member” 🗃️ Removing Native people from history- another type of removal

Please circulate and share this important resource: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

I’ll add that the Girl Scout cookies link lets you order Girl Scout cookies directly to you and the sales directly help my daughter’s troop- she’s a junior and her troop is doing activities like whale watching and camping ⛺️ 🐋

I’ll add that the Girl Scout cookies link lets you order Girl Scout cookies directly to you and the sales directly help my daughter’s troop- she’s a junior and her troop is doing activities like whale watching and camping ⛺️ 🐋

If you want/miss Girl Scout cookies I have a link to order- message me!

I just finished reading Tessa Hulls’ Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir. What an amazing read 🌸 Reading this over several days it took time for me to understand & unpack this complex family history, history of Chinese diaspora & Pacific/US migrations, and the relinking of family/self through memoir.

“Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. ‘AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.’” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

There was a time ten-fifteen years ago when I poured my time into oral histories and connecting with elders in the community, and now I pour my time into my children’s lives and their little communities at their school and their afterschool activities. Different generations and a new role for me.

I would like to start writing again- I’d like to start researching again. I’m not sure when I’ll get time back for research as I’m spending more time with my kids while they’re small, but I know they’ll grow quickly and my time with them as children is fleeting. For now, archives will or must wait.

Blueberry apple tiny pie #bakingsky #piesky

Democrat and former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola said Monday that she will run for U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, setting up a fight between two political heavyweights. www.adn.com/politics/202...

👇This is a really important read about BSNC Alaska Native Corporation shareholders organizing to divest from ICE contracts, including a delivered petition. #Alaskasky www.nomenugget.net/news/shareho...

Mansplaining and settlersplaining the doctrine of discovery while failing to look within

When settler colonialism and myths of discovery very much reveal themselves to be obvious even to those tho would deny its existence within their own parameters…

👇This is a really important read about BSNC Alaska Native Corporation shareholders organizing to divest from ICE contracts, including a delivered petition. #Alaskasky www.nomenugget.net/news/shareho...

Remembering how we’d always go to Sprinkles when visiting my kids’ grandpa in San Diego- usually December and summertime. Last summer, grandpa got a dozen Sprinkles cupcakes for my daughter’s birthday before we went to Del Mar beach. Didn’t know it was the last time we’d eat them.

My son has been singing the word “baleen” to the tune of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”

Doing one more post for this- before the National Archives closed in Anchorage and moved their contents to Seattle, I brought my mom to NARA downtown and we pulled up her boarding school record from Mt Edgecumbe. We saw her photo, transcript, & school profile plus her siblings records- ca late 1960s

At the Stanford Hoover Institute, I read the journal of a Military Police officer in Alaska during WWII. In the section on Fort Richardson, he mentioned Native guys who ate lots of hard candies at dinner and their funny names. The list of names included “Anagick” - my grandpa!

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

Wreath making- oh what fun

Little baking helpers & Christmas cookies! Yum