Traditional Transportation Heritage Kit

A collection of accounts of traditional life in Nanwalek told by community members and collected by the students of English Bay Elementary/High School.

A collection of legends, stories, and photographs from the Chugach Region.

This work catalogs the collection of nearly five hundred Alutiiq/Sugpiaq cultural items held by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, or the Kunstkamera, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

This book is written from the 1974 notes of Bobby Stamp and capture valuable knowledge pertaining to traditional life in Chenega.

A contextualized review of artifacts relating to traditional hunting practices with a focus on the traditional technology that enabled hunters to harvest seals.

In a traditional story from the Chinook people of the Northwest, a young boy disappears and is found years later, swimming with the seals.

This book examines the history and evolution of the baidarka in Southwest and Southcentral Alaska. It makes use of first-hand historical accounts, high resolution images, and historical analysis to present the baidarka's cultural significance.

Alaska Native master boat builders, apprentices, and volunteers build eight traditional watercraft, capturing and sharing the knowledge of their ancestors and sharing the spirit of their people.

This children's book follows Jason's journey building a canoe with the help of his Uncle Silas, and the many details he must be aware of in order to construct a strong canoe. Jason learn about the cultural significance of the canoe to his village.

This coming-of-age novel tells the story of 17 year-old Mickey Church, a Tlingit youth from Wrangell. When he learns about Tlingit history, he builds a traditional Tlingit war canoe and learns how honoring the past creates a meaningful present and future.

A book about the March, 1964, earthquake that struck Alaska. The coastal village of Chenega was destroyed by three massive tsunamis. These are the survivors' stories, told forty years later.

This book chronicles Erin McKittrick’s journey, along with her family, as they set out to hike and paddle the coastline of Cook Inlet, a distance of 800 miles. Readers will join the family for a tour of Southcentral Alaska -- its landscape and people.

This children's book tells the story of a young child who learns to find strength after the loss of her mother by going to an Alaskan river every day to watch for the figure of a girl in a kayak that her grandfather carved.

This colorful children's book is a work of non-fiction in which the first traditional chief of the Alaska Interior, David Salmon, tells about his childhood adventures and traditional life in the Alaska wilderness.

In this book, Yup'ik Elders describe and explain tools and their daily use, including the traditional science that developed these technologies and the overlap between Yup'ik material culture and cosmology and traditional spiritual values.

This children's book follows the adventure of Alutiiq youth Kuuku and Tanqiq as they travel far from home. The book includes Alutiiq vocabulary words in every chapter and features descriptions of Kodiak's natural habitat and Alutiiq culture and history.

Told from a child's perspective, this book recounts a family's adventure on an Alaskan river, the traditional snacks they enjoy, and the Alaskan landscape they pass through.

This book follows a girl "Tahita" and her grandfather as they travel from the Aleutians to the Arctic in 1898 by foot and by kayak. The book brings readers through traditional lands and introduces readers to elements of different Alaska Native cultures

This Kenai Fjords National Park Historic Resource Study investigates the history and development of the Kenai Fjords National Park area over a significant time period.

This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to build a plywood kayak. The work includes a brief history of the kayak, how to choose the right kayak for your needs and skill level, details of all the necessary tools, materials, and more.

A comprehensive history of the use and development of these vessels -- the book includes seventy-six drawings of historic kayaks, and ninety-one scale drawings of historic paddles.

This instructor manual includes activities designed specifically for students in Alaska with education activities relating to shelter, signals, water, food, survival kits, cold water survival skills, rescue techniques, fire building, and more.