Cama’i! Please join us for a Traditional Qayaq Dedication Ceremony on Saturday, July 29 at 11 am in Seward at the Kenai Fjords National Park Visitor Center! All are welcome.

Tentative Agenda (subject to change)

  • Welcome & Land Acknowledgement by NPS staff Gillian Braver
  • Sugpiat Prayer video – Nellie Gregorieff, 1961
  • Mark Hiratsuka – Chugachmiut Heritage Director
  • Patrick Lewis, Cultural Resources Program Manager
  • Tabios’ Family speaks
  • Traditional Qayaq Build Video
  • Thank you from NPS Staff member, possibly John Carroll, KEFJ Superintendent
  • Invitation to view the qayaq
  • Reading of the Dedication
  • Refreshments

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Spring Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Spring Edition

  • Career Opportunities
  • Chugachmiut Heritage Archives
  • Spotlight on Dolly Wiles of Qutekcak Native Tribe
  • Nanwalek NYO Team
  • Accessing Choices in Education (ACE) Program Support
  • Nanwalek Head Start Internet Upgrade
  • Service Booklets
  • Realty Department
  • Scholarship Opportunity & NET Program
  • Grants Team
  • Heritage Preservation Program – Nanwalek Sugpiak Regalia Project
  • Health Services Division News
  • Graduate Highlights
  • Denali Wildland Fire Module Crew

📸About the Cover: Chugachmiut Elders and community members visited the Ethnological Museum of Berlin in Germany. The Elders and community members included William Smith of Valdez, Pamela Smith of Cordova, Eric Clock of Seward, Brandon Moonin of Tatitlek, Deborah McMullen of Port Graham, Vincent Evans of Nanwalek, and John Johnson and Tatianna Turner from Chugach Alaska Corporation. They were engaging with artifacts that were taken from the Chugachmiut communities in the late 19th century and documenting important cultural knowledge and stories.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.