Growing Up Native in Alaska
November 17, 2009, 6:30pm to 9:30pm, Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Rasmuson Conference Center 1-4, 3600 San Jeronimo Drive, Anchorage, Alaska
A panel discussion sponsored by the Alaska Humanities Forum and Rasmuson Foundation including participants from the book Growing Up Native in Alaska, published by The CIRI Foundation in 2001 and authored by Alexandra J. McClanahan.
The participants will talk about how things have changed for them since the book was published, and their perspectives on growing up Native in Alaska in the larger context of Alaska’s 50th Anniversary of Statehood. The event will open with a reception, then a Dena’ina welcome from Dena’ina Historian Aaron Leggett, and then the panel discussion moderated by Alexandra J. McClanahan and Aaron Leggett. Portions of the panel discussion will be recorded for future broadcast on KNBA-FM. Sharon Anderson, Carrie Irwin Brown, James LaBelle, George Owletuck, Jaylene Wheeler and Deborah Vo.