Join us in celebrating this oldie-but-a-goodie article by AWA Board member Angute-Karaq Qakvalria (also named Estelle Thomson) on Preserving Traditional Life-ways. This article was published in the First Alaskans Spring 2019 magazine.
Angute-Karaq is a Yup’ik traditional medicine practitioner, educator, serves on her village's Traditional Council, and most importantly a mom to three wonderful, smart, funny and ridiculously good looking children. She is originally from the Southwestern Bering Sea Coast community of Hooper Bay, but has lived in many communities over her lifetime including Seattle, Kingston and Suquamish, WA, Utqiagvik, Bethel, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Kenai, and in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. She is the Tribal Court Program Director for the Native Village of Paimiut, creating a traditional restorative justice model using principles and traditional activities from her culture for her tribal members in three different rural communities. She also serves as a consultant for the Association of Village Council President’s Tribal Court Master Series working with other tribes to set up their Tribal Courts and is a trainer for History and Hope, a program of the Alaska Resilience Initiative.
