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Faith, hope, and love: teaching values.(YukonCircle)
Publication: Whispering Wind Publication Date: 01-MAR-08 Author: McAnally, Conley Stone
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COPYRIGHT 2008 Whispering Wind
When I taught school in Noatak, Alaska I lived closer to Russia than I do Anchorage. Russian influence is just around the Alaskan corner.
A few years ago I had reason to travel to what was then my first Eskimo village other than the one I was living in at the time. The settlement was located along the Yukon River and called Russian Mission.
Russian Mission is home to about 350 Yup'ik Eskimos with a smattering of eye colors other than brown. Names like Vaska, Kozevnikoff, Alexie, Nickoli, and Stafphanoff are proudly displayed on the school sports banner hanging in the gym.
Promyshlenniki, Russian furtraders, established a trading post there along the banks of...
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