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- Title
EXPLORING ALUTIIQ HERITAGE ONE WORD AT A TIME.
- Authors
Steffian, Amy F.; Counceller, April Laktonen
- Abstract
Every Sunday the Alutiiq Museum publishes the Alutiiq Word of the Week--a short cultural lesson. The program shares Alutiiq language and traditions with radio, print, and digital resources. What began as a community cultural lesson, designed to promote awareness of hidden history, has become a tool for Alutiiq language research. This essay explores language documentation and education in museum settings and reviews the evolution of the Alutiiq Word of the Week program as an example. The discussion illustrates how museums are not simply places to archive language information, but community organizations uniquely situated to assist with the study and sharing of the world's languages.
- Subjects
ALUTIIQ language; ETHNOLOGICAL museums &; collections; TRANSLITERATION; CULTURAL education; INFORMATION sharing
- Publication
Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 2020, Vol 18, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
1544-9793
- Publication type
Article