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Dr. Ann Fienup-Riordan is a cultural anthropologist known internationally for her work with Yup'ik Eskimo peoples of western Alaska. She earned a doctorate degree in anthropology in 1980 from the University of Chicago with a dissertation based on fieldwork on Nelson Island. She’s the author of more than a dozen books on Yup’ik culture, including, most recently, Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell, with co-author Alice Rearden, published in 2017 by University of Alaska Press. In 1991 and again in 2001 Fienup-Riordan was named Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society. In 2000 the Alaska Federation of Natives presented her with the Denali Award, honoring the greatest contribution to Native Alaskan culture by a non-Native.
Alice Aluskak Rearden, from Napakiak, graduated in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Since then, Alice has worked in collaboration with Ann Fienup-Riordan, Marie Meade, and the Calista Elders Council, where she has served as primary translator and oral historian for more than 10 years. A 1996 graduate of Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Rearden is a fluent Yup'ik speaker committed to working with regional tradition bearers to gather, translate, and share their knowledge. In 2008 she received both the Museums Alaska Award for Excellence and the Bridge Builders Community Service Award in recognition of her outstanding and important work.
Dr. Ann Fienup-Riordan is a cultural anthropologist known internationally for her work with Yup'ik Eskimo peoples of western Alaska. She earned a doctorate degree in anthropology in 1980 from the University of Chicago with a dissertation based on fieldwork on Nelson Island. She’s the author of more than a dozen books on Yup’ik culture, including, most recently, Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell, with co-author Alice Rearden, published in 2017 by University of Alaska Press. In 1991 and again in 2001 Fienup-Riordan was named Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society. In 2000 the Alaska Federation of Natives presented her with the Denali Award, honoring the greatest contribution to Native Alaskan culture by a non-Native.
Alice Aluskak Rearden, from Napakiak, graduated in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Since then, Alice has worked in collaboration with Ann Fienup-Riordan, Marie Meade, and the Calista Elders Council, where she has served as primary translator and oral historian for more than 10 years. A 1996 graduate of Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Rearden is a fluent Yup'ik speaker committed to working with regional tradition bearers to gather, translate, and share their knowledge. In 2008 she received both the Museums Alaska Award for Excellence and the Bridge Builders Community Service Award in recognition of her outstanding and important work.