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yours is a great story and you my friend are an inspiration. maybe somehow in your free time considerspreading your message to fellow inmates. and by the way, Alaska's orthodox churches will always be welcoming you. god bless you!
Hello dear @Indie Alaska, thank you so much for sharing your great video and Ricky's interview with us! Like 5 👍🏻and share with my community. Have a beautiful day and a wonderful week! Love and peace always... May God bless and protect you all.🙏🏼💕🙌🏼💕💞💞♥️♥️♥️🤗
Thank you for this. I'm 1/8 and often struggle with the amount of blood I have and whether it's enough, regardless of the immense love I have for our culture. Hearing this made me really emotional. Thank you also to indie Alaska for helping me connect more to my culture
My native Alaskan sister is so beautiful she makes me so proud she's keeping here culture alive and im keeping my culture alive to I'm from the Chumash and tataviam tribes haku that's how you say hello in Chumash language
This is heartbreaking. I grew up eating fishwheel salmon and it hurts to imagine a river without salmon. Salmon are like the lifeblood of the land. I am so sorry. I hope for they return. You are inspiring and I wish you and your community the best.
sometimes i think we learned that from flying Eagles accidentally dropping a fish on soil and seeing bountiful results . They say its also how the entire Amazon rainforest was similarly built too . basically strategically dumping ancient 'trash' in the ground . I mean , we are the only animal that doesn't naturally add to the ground 💩
This might sound like some sort of vaguely hostile or condescending comment, but I swear it's not. See, I grew up in Alaska, and I have not met someone who said "parky" to refer to this piece of clothing. I just wonder where she heard it that way. I'm genuinely curious, was it a thing that came from white people entering the area, was it the way a subset of Alaska Natives said it, was it her mom's little quirk that she picked up on? I am dying to know.
Speaking as a displaced alaskan, I have had the opinion for some years now that anytime something exists in the lower 48 and gets popular, it often exists first or even better in AK. Like telehealth is pretty new down here, but in AK CHAP has been around for longer than telehealth was a concept. Who needs a dozen apps when you've got Kusko Cab?
I'm Algerian and I'm in love with Alaskan culture 😍 Gosh, I wish I'd have the chance to live there. Can't really explain my feelings 😭 Love and greetings from Algeria 🤗❤️🇩🇿
Thank you for sharing this moving story. I understand the feeling of being tired of having to be strong. It seems an unfair burden, and yet everyone is having to bear it, without much support. I'm glad to see that more resources are being made available, and made culturally appropriate. I wonder what we outside the community can do. Can scholarships be set up so that counsellors from the village can be trained, the return home to help? What future do they want for themselves, and how can we support that happening?
Thanks! I do teach a class at the spring Celtic Fest, and I'll be up at Highland Games in a few weeks with my booth if it doesn't get blown away by the winds again.
