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@iaminuit
I AM INUIT, the book, is now available for purchase online! You can purchase the book on Amazon or direct from the publisher, BENTELI. Copies of he book will be sold locally soon. So, if you're looking for that perfect Christmas gift, be sure to pick one up! Thank you to all the people that supported the project, invited me into your homes, and offices to help give the world a real look into the lives of Alaskan Inuit.
The I AM INUIT exhibit at the @anchoragemuseum will be closing a week from today. Don't miss it!
This evening, I AM INUIT the exhibit will be opening at the @anchoragemuseum ! Come join us and photographer @brianadamsphotography for a gallery talk from 7PM-8PM. There will be 50 printed images on display and the complete body of work available for viewing electronically. The exhibit will be on display from Feb 24 - Sep 17. Hope to see you there!
"I started building kayaks a couple years ago. I learned how to make them online, and the design is based off of traditional kayaks. I have made two of them so far. The skin is made of ballistic nylon, the frame is made of PVC pipe, bamboo, plexiglass and regular wood. I use them to go get seals, birds and for fishing too. This time of the year it’s seals and birds. It works pretty good. I also make throwing harpoons. They’re made out of bamboo. They are five feet long with harpoon tips. I am a veteran. I did a deployment in Afghanistan back in 2012. I was stationed in Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City; I was a driver over there. I loved being a driver because it would get up to 115˙ there and I had air-conditioning. I loved it. I think I am one of the very first ones to go through airborne school in this area." — Axel Joe is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska.
My mom is from here and my dad is from Boston, Massachusetts. We grew up here and then moved to Anchorage when I was in the 10th grade. I stayed in Anchorage on and off until 2004 when I got my [college] degree. After I got my degree we moved here permanently. My husband is from here too. This is my 13th year teaching here. I teach the fourth grade now; I have 20 students. When I first started here I was teaching summer school then the immersion class. I really enjoyed this year. I try and teach them traditional stuff. Recently I brought in a tom cod and we opened it up and I showed them the organs, and labeled everything and ended up making a traditional soup. The kids got to bring a cup home and share it with their family. As me and my husband are get older, it seems like we are really wanting the native food like every single day. Yesterday I said to him, ‘I feel like having walrus today, go get some from the freezer’. He took some out and I cooked some last night and we had some for dinner. Then this morning when I woke up I said ‘I want to have walrus for breakfast’ (laughs). Then I told him I feel like having black fish today. As we get older it’s important to us. — Renee Green is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska.
“I used to work for so many years with different companies and organizations. One day I decided to say ‘Hey I can do things on my own and be self-employed and do my own thing and be my own boss.’ Now I can get up and go hunting or get up and go do something I can do it. I do a lot of arts and crafts, mainly carving with ivory, sometimes driftwood, all raw materials. I do a lot of work with baleen, whale bones, walrus ivory and mastodon. All pertaining to my background and my ancestors. I try to keep the tradition going. I try to present my artwork as storytelling, before the modern days. Me and my wife Christine do a lot of combination work too. We work on dolls and baskets together. My wife is one of the well known basket weavers, she does all the very fine stitch work. I will make the body of the doll and she will make the outer layers, like the seal gut rain coat. The newest one we started working on is a basket, she made the basket from beach grass and I made the caps. Right now, my favorite material to work with is mastodon ivory. One day I heard my nephew in Chevak [Alaska] had been going out behind the volcano mountains and finding mastodon. So about four years ago my wife and I went there and found a lot of stuff, we found mastodon teeth and partial tusks, I found maybe about a three-foot-long tusk. — Steven Stone Sr. is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska. Steven was one of the 35 artist selected this year to receive an Individual Artist Award from the Rasmuson Foundation. He plans to purchase a shed to continue his work in.
"I am 17. I was born in Bethel and raised in Hooper Bay. I work at the AC (Alaska Commercial Company) store; I have been here since July. I enjoy it." — Preston Olson is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska.
"This is old Hooper Bay, it’s about two or three miles away from the new site. Hooper Bay got its name from Edward Hooper, he came out by boat and was just about to leave when he saw people coming out from the hills. We pick the grass for basket weaving when the grass starts to turn yellow. We start just before Halloween and we stop picking them when the snow hits. They don’t look for the really thin grass, and long but not too long thick grass. After we pick it, I keep some for myself and give some to my grandma Mary Simon. I don’t weave baskets; I weave hair pins. I first learned how to weave four or five years ago. My first one was really out of it (laughs). Starting off is very difficult." — Samantha Hill is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska.
Noatak, Alaska. 2015. Happy Holidays from I AM INUIT!
Flying between Hooper Bay, Alaska and Bethel, Alaska. 2016.
A man looks out the window of a small passenger plane flying between Hooper Bay, Alaska and Bethel, Alaska. 2016. Hooper Bay (Naparyaarmiut in Central Yup'ik) is a Yup’ik village located on the Bering Sea coast, approximately 153 miles Northwest from from Bethel, Alaska.
"I make ulus and harpoons; I have been doing it for over 20 years on and off. I learned by myself and with the help of my mom. This is my own design for cutting larger fish and stuff. The blade is made from a saw blade. Some are made of hard metal and some are made of soft metal. I like the softer ones, they’re easier to cut and sharpen. I made the handles with either hickory, [walrus] ivory or bone. Some of them are made for fish, some of them are made for birds or seals." — Don Tall Sr. is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska.
"I make ulus and harpoons; I have been doing it for over 20 years on and off. I learned by myself and with the help of my mom. This is my own design for cutting larger fish and stuff. The blade is made from a saw blade. Some are made of hard metal and some are made of soft metal. I like the softer ones, they’re easier to cut and sharpen. I made the handles with either hickory, [walrus] ivory or bone. Some of them are made for fish, some of them are made for birds or seals." — Don Tall Sr. is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska.
"This is our first-time ice fishing this season for tom cod. Usually the ice freezes up in October, it’s already November. Now days we don’t get too much snow. Seven fish is good for me, fills up my stomach. I will be catching a few more and then head home. It’s a lot of fun." — Jerry Moses is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska.
"This is our first-time ice fishing this season for tom cod. Usually the ice freezes up in October, it’s already November. Now days we don’t get too much snow. Seven fish is good for me, fills up my stomach. I will be catching a few more and then head home. It’s a lot of fun." — Jerry Moses is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska.
"We just came back from packing water for drinking water. We pulled it from a pond that is about two miles away from town. We drink it straight out of the pond. They keep a hole open in the pond and if it freezes over you use an ice pick to open it back up." — Marlene Hill and Arnoldine Hill are both Yup’ik and live in Hooper Bay, Alaska.
"I used to live up in the mountains. When my dad died, we moved down here. That was in 1952. I have been making baskets since I was 19 years old. The baskets are made of grass; we get it down by the ocean. When the grass turns to this color we pick it, then we boil it in water with a little bit of salt and then it won’t break. Lots of work. We build lots of baskets; I don’t know how many. I learned how to make baskets with my sister, I would watch her. She died. I also learned how to make boots from her." — Mary Simon is Yup’ik and lives in Hooper Bay, Alaska.