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On the heels of the four-day Sharing Our Knowledge conference now under way in Sitka a separate program, “Alaska Treaty of Cession – Causes and Consequences,” will be presented on Tuesday.
From today through Monday some 50 workshops and presentations on Native Alaskan themes are being offered at various locations of the Sheldon Jackson campus as part of the Sharing Our Knowledge gathering.
Tuesday’s event, starting at 1:30 p.m. at the Mt. Edgecumbe High School Activities Center, will focus on the 1867 treaty by which Russia surrendered its claims in Alaska to the United States. It is funded by the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology and Alaska Airlines.
Scholars from Alaska, other states, Canada and Russia will discuss the question, “Why did Russia sell its only overseas colony and what were the consequences for Alaska Natives?”
Professor Stephen Haycox, University of Alaska Anchorage, will moderate the discussions.
Russian scholars include Andrei Grinev of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia; Sergei Kan of Dartmouth College, N.H.; Ilya Vinkovetsky of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.; and Andrei Znamenski of the University of Memphis.
Alaska Native experts are Joaqlin Estus (Tlingit), journalist, historian and archivist; Aaron Leggett, (Dena’ina), museum curator and cultural adviser; and David Russell-Jensen (Tsimshian/Iñupiaq), Tlingit language student.
Organizers said that individuals not planning to attend can email questions in advance to metcom@gci.net.
The program will commence with a showing of the three-minute sesquicentennial video funded by a grant from the Rasmuson Foundation. The video link is: https://player.vimeo.com/video/235825958.
On Monday, the day prior to the program at Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Kan, Grinev, Znamenski and Vinkovetsky will take part in a program at the Sharing Our Knowledge conference.
The topic at the conference plenary session – 8:30-10:45 a.m. Monday at Odess Auditorium – will be “Russians and the Tlingit: Conflicts,Contacts, Legacies.”
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
The 7th Annual Honoring Women dinner will feature Roberta Sue Kitka, ANS Camp 4; Rose MacIntyre, U.S. Coast Guard Spouses and Women’s Association; Christine McLeod Pate, SAFV; Marta Ryman, Soroptimists; and Mary Sarvela (in memoriam), Sitka Woman’s Club.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
Eighth-graders Joanna Hearn and Gwen Marshall and sixth-graders Annabelle Korthals, Jennifer Lewis and Marianne Mulder have straight A’s (4.00) for the third quarter at Blatchley Junior High.