Qateryuk Unit: Alutiiq lessons in past tense
Alutiiq CommunityThe Alutiiq language is spoken by the indigenous people of Kodiak Island and much of the Gulf of Alaska. I teach the Koniag Dialect at Kodiak High School in the city of Kodiak. I am a second language Alutiiq speaker. I have been learning my ancestral language for the last five years.
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Cama'iAtqa Candace Branson, apr'taaraatnga Cutmen. My name is Candace Branson, and they always call me Cutmen (sounds like "Chootmen"). My grandparents are Phil Sr. and Edna Ferris, and Jim and Betty, and Priscilla Branson. My parents are Martha and Steve Branson of Kodiak.
I completed this project to attain a Masters Degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I joined the graduate program to become a better Alutiiq language teacher. I work for the Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak as the Alutiiq Heritage Educator, where I work with youth and families in the Alutiiq Dance program. I also instruct the Kodiak High school Alutiiq Class with Michael Bach. |
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I could not have done this work without the support, encouragement, previous research and shared knowledge of the following people.
My Family, Martha and Steve Branson, and Ryan, Marlon and Alana Branson, and David Zachary Tucker
The community of Alutiiq Language learners, and more specifically, Alisha Drabek PhD, Michael Bach, April Counceller PhD, Marya Halvorsen, Susan Malutin, and Gayla Pedersen.
Peggy Azuyak, Sondra Stuart, and Rochelle Adams, Steve Thorne, Wendy Martelle, Sabine Siekmann, and the rest of my CALL Family
Elders who helped with the translation and development of the story: Florence Pestrikoff, Kathryn Chichenoff, Julia Naughton, Nick Alokli, Phyllis Peterson, Clyda Christiansen, and Mary Haakanson.
I could not have done this work without the support, encouragement, previous research and shared knowledge of the following people.
My Family, Martha and Steve Branson, and Ryan, Marlon and Alana Branson, and David Zachary Tucker
The community of Alutiiq Language learners, and more specifically, Alisha Drabek PhD, Michael Bach, April Counceller PhD, Marya Halvorsen, Susan Malutin, and Gayla Pedersen.
Peggy Azuyak, Sondra Stuart, and Rochelle Adams, Steve Thorne, Wendy Martelle, Sabine Siekmann, and the rest of my CALL Family
Elders who helped with the translation and development of the story: Florence Pestrikoff, Kathryn Chichenoff, Julia Naughton, Nick Alokli, Phyllis Peterson, Clyda Christiansen, and Mary Haakanson.