We really wanted to capture the sometimes complicated Thanksgiving holiday from a Native perspective on Molly of Denali, including the values of gratitude and family/clan our cultures have always been lead by. And now the episode of Emmy-nominated! #thanksgiving #nativeamericanheritagemonth

A little something different for the twenty seventh day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth. Instead of a single book we’re highlighting a sampling of #Alaska Native-authored language #books from regions around the state. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #indigenous #alaskanative #indigenouslanguage

One of my favorite poems!!! It’s a poem for our times. And perfect for the holidays. #AlaskaSky #Alaska #poetsofbluesky

On this 26th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re celebrating the history book “Iñuksuk” by Netsaii #Gwich’in author Adeline Peter Raboff. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenous #books #booksky #history #writer #author #alaskanative #nativeamerican #athabascan #inuksuk #indigenousbooks

Starbard was nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Series for an episode called “Thanks-for-giving," that aired last November and follows Molly and her friends as they learn why some Alaska Native people don’t celebrate Thanksgiving.

On this twenty fifth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “How the Devil’s Club Came to Be” by #Tlingit writer Miranda Rose Kaagwil Worl & Tlingit illustrator Michaela Goade, Lingít language version by Tlingit Elder Florence Sheakley. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenous #books

For this 24th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting #Inupiat #Kiowa artist Kunaq Marjorie Tahbone’s children’s book “Uluit Atuqtaatka.” #nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenous #books #booksky #childrensbooks #ulu #alaska #alaskanative #native verastarbard.com/2025/11/24/t...

“A show for every family trying to raise kids who understand that the strongest communities are the ones where everybody has something valuable to contribute—and that there is no lone hero who will save our land and our homes, or preserve our culture and stories. Only we can do that for each other.”

The prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has revealed the finalists for its 48th annual international playwriting award

AWARDS: The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2025-26 finalists announced by Pedro Pascal 🔗 www.westendtheatre.com/324879/news/... Finalists have been announced for the prestigious #SusanSmithBlackburnPrize 2025-26 - recognising women+ writers for plays

On this 23rd day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting the #memoir “So, How Long Have You Been Native?” by #Aleut #Yup’ik scholar Alexis C. Burton. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenous #alaskanative #alaska #books #booksky #nativeamerican #tourism verastarbard.com/2025/11/23/t...

On this 22nd day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting Koyukon #Athabascan storyteller Catherine Attla’s “Bekk'aatugh Ts'uhuney: Stories We Live By.” #nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenous #dine #books #booksky #authors #womenwriters #alaskanative verastarbard.com/2025/11/22/t...

Ok world… give me some good news! Zap! ⚡️ Here it comes—I’m happy to announce I received Honorable Mention for the Alaska Wilderness League’s Adam Kolton Storytelling Award! 🌊 I’m an official Alaskan storyteller! #AlaskaBlueSky #AlaskaSky #Alaska #AlaskaWildernessLeague #Wrangell

Amazing project coming to the screen! 🍿 #AlaskaSky #Alaska

On this 21st day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “The Winter Walk” by #Inupiat author Loretta Outwater Cox. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanative #indigenous #books #booksky #writer #inupiaq #inuit #nativebooks #indigenousauthor #alaska verastarbard.com/2025/11/21/t...

On this 20th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting #Inupiat #Tlingit #Nisga’a #writer Lily H. Tuzroyluke’s #novel “Sivuliiq.” A fictional #book with historical foundation. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #booksky #indigenous #firstnations #book verastarbard.com/2025/11/20/t...

On this 19th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting #Yup’ik agricultural specialist Elias Kelly’s memoir about life in #Alaska. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanative #yupik #indigenous #books #booksky #writer #author #native #nativeamerican verastarbard.com/2025/11/19/t...

On this 18th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re celebrating #Tlingit scholars Nora Marks Dauenhauer’s “Life Woven With Song.” #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #booksky #writer #indigenous #alaskanative #alaska #nativeamerican #indiegnousart #poetry #poem verastarbard.com/2025/11/18/t...

For Your Consideration: Pow! - Best Animated Short Film Directed by Joey Clift "Pow! Invites viewers into a big Indian world with an even bigger heart." - Julian Brave Noisecat, Director, SugarCane "Everything a good short should be!" - Mike Rianda, Director, The Mitchells vs. the Machines

KYUK, one of the few sources of local news and native language programming in the region devastated by last month's storm, lost federal funding that was up to 70% of its budget and plans to make cuts in January. (From @npr.org)

I vastly underestimated how many blanket forts and pillow forts I would be building as a cat employee. Aan Séek’ will actually tap me on the arm now to ask for a new fort. #cat #cats #calico

On this seventeenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting the children’s #picturebook “How the Raven Got His Crooked Nose” by #Dena’ina mother/son team Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #indigenous #writer verastarbard.com/2025/11/17/t...

For our sixteenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting Tlingit/Inupiat poet Ishmael Hope’s book “Courtesans of Flounder Hill.” #nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanativeheritagemonth #tlingit #inupiat #poetry #books #writer #alaska #booksky verastarbard.com/2025/11/16/t...

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Halfway through #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth and we’re highlighting #Inupiat leader Willie Hensley’s #memoir “Fifty Miles from Tomorrow.” #alaskanativeheritagemonth #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #booksky #alaska #Alaskanative #inupiaq #writer #indigenous verastarbard.com/2025/11/15/t...

For this 13th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re celebrating “Celebration” by #Tlingit artist Lily Hope, illustrated by Tlingit artist Kelsey Mata Foote. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenous #books #childrensbooks #picturebooks #alaskanative #alaska verastarbard.com/2025/11/14/t...

We get dozens of #Indigenous writers in one for today’s #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth #book, “The Alaska Native Reader,” edited by Tlingit scholar Maria Shaa Tláa Williams. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #americanindianheritagemonth #books #book #writer #author #alaska verastarbard.com/2025/11/13/t...

For the twelfth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting Inupiat poet Joan Naviyuk Kane’s beautiful book of poetry, “Hyperboreal.” #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry #indigenous #inupiat #inupiaq #alaska #writer #alaskanative verastarbard.com/2025/11/12/t...

Jeffrey Gibson on 10 Native Artists to Know. www.artsy.net/article/arts...

Our first large format children’s picture book for #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth is “Am’ala” by #Tlingit writer Frank Kaash Katasse. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #nativeheritagemonth #books #childrensbooks #picturebooks #indigenous verastarbard.com/2025/11/11/t...

Celebrating the tenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth with Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup’s “The Museum of Unnatural Histories.” #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry #indigenous #nativeheritagemonth #athabascan #book verastarbard.com/2025/11/10/t...

In celebration of Native American Heritage month I want to talk about erasure. Erasure is how anti-Indigenous racism functions in the U.S. today. 🧵

On this ninth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth, Inupiat artist Edna Wilder takes us on a year of her mother’s life as she is introduced to the Western world for the first time, in “Once Upon an Eskimo Time.” #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #alaska #inupiat verastarbard.com/2025/11/09/t...

Time to focus on the littles! On our eighth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth, we’re highlighting the board #book “Button Up!: Fall in Alaska” by Koyukon Athabascan writer Angela Y. Gonzalez #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #childrensbooks #alaskanative #alaska verastarbard.com/2025/11/08/t...

We’re headed back into poetry for the seventh day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth. “Gagaan X’usyee: Below the Foot of the Sun” is a touching collection of poems by Tlingit/Haida/Yup’ik/Sami writer X̱’unei Lance Twitchell. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry verastarbard.com/2025/11/07/t...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

“Attu Boy” is the memoir of Unungan survivor Nick Golodoff who was captured by Japanese soldiers on the island of Attu during World War II. Highlighting this extraordinary story for the 6th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth #books #nativeamericanheritagemonth verastarbard.com/2025/11/06/t...

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY FIVE For the fifth day celebrating #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit” by #Yup’ik scholar Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books verastarbard.com/2025/11/05/t...

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY FOUR On this fourth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “Roughly for the North” by Inupiat writer Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenousbooks #books #alaska #alaskanative #inupiaq verastarbard.com/2025/11/04/t...

On what is likely the last FULL week of episode releases for Molly of Denali, there’s some reeeeal good stuff airing! Molly and Grandpa Nat are traveling all over the Lower 48 and Hawaii to visit both volcanic activity sites and the Indigenous stewards of that land. #nativeamericanheritagemonth

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY 3 Our third book highlight for #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth is “Eagle Drums” by #Inupiat author Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson. It’s a middle grade book that received a #NewberyHonor in 2024. #americanindianheritagemonth #books verastarbard.com/2025/11/03/t...

What a cool way to start Native American Heritage Month! Pow qualified for The Academy Awards in the "Best Animated Short" category! Thank you to @animag.bsky.social for including us in their Oscar Watch and for everyone who continues to boost this film. Tell your @theacademyusa.bsky.social friends!

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY TWO For our second book celebrating #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “Blonde Indian” by #Tlingit author Ernestine Shaankalaxt Hayes. #alaska #books #nativeamericanheritagemonth #americanindianheritagemonth verastarbard.com/2025/11/02/t...

Happy Alaska Native Heritage Month! I’m starting a new series today highlighting a different Alaska Native-authored book every day. #alaskanativeheritagemonth #americanindianheritagemonth #indigenous #nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanative #gwichin verastarbard.com/2025/11/01/t...

Fullbody otter commission for Loial Otter on TG, who also requested that the design be made into a sticker for my ko-fi shop!! Thank you so much for commissioning me! 🦦🌆 #formline #telekitneticart #indigenousart

Happy Halloween! 🎃 🐈‍⬛

When I was taking this my sis said “This is a perfect #hoahoa moon.” So I had to. #hoahoaseason

Watching a deceased whale get towed out of our “backyard” wasn’t on my bingo card for 2025. We were grateful the coast guard came to tow it away as this was about 2.5 hours from a high tide that was pushing straight to our house. No official word on cause of death, but lots of speculation.

Gorgeous, BRIGHT rainbow today 🌈