Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Located on Kaien Island, Prince Rupert is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and has a population of 12,508 people.
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Vancouver-UBC's MOA and Gardens
Once in Vancouver's UBC, my husband and I attended the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) dedicated to the Inuit's Arts and crafts from colonial times. Include also is the tranquility of the Nitobe Memorial Garden. It is part of the UBC Botanical Garden and the Center for Plant Research.
One of the most authentic Japanese gardens in North America, it honors Japanese author, educator, diplomat, and politician Nitobe
Inazō (1862–1933), who died in Victoria, British Columbia (now the sister city of Nitobe's home town Morioka), and whose goal was to
become a bridge across the Pacific. The garden has been the subject of more than fifteen years' study by a UBC professor, who elieves that its construction hides a number of impressive features, including references to Japanese philosophy and mythology, shadow ridges visible only at certain times of year, and positioning of a lantern that is filled with light at the exact date and time of Nitobe's death each year.
This videography, conceived and directed by Ricardo F Morin, brings together the narrative of throat and vocal singing by Inuit artists as well as Japanese artists, thereby sharing the magical connection expressed by these two cultures.
Gwaii Haanas - English Version
1998: A Greenpeace PSA narrated by David Suzuki, written, directed and produced by Silvaine Zimmermann on the dangers if oil drilling and hydrocarbon exploration exploration off Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), Pacific West Coast of Canada. Underwater footage of sea lions frolicking around Gwaii Haanas (South Moresby) National Park Reserve with music by Goojau and Haida Dancers. The pixilation is due to the upload having been made from my VHS copy! A better, but far from perfect copy, made from film, is available on my VIMEO channel.
Northwest Native Art: ArtTalk Symposium Session 1
The first session of the Burke Museum’s ArtTalk Symposium: Conversations on Northwest Native Art includes presentations on collaborative research and community-based scholarship, including:
1) Pat Courtney Gold, Fiber Artist, Independent Scholar and BHC Board Member presents Research in Museums and it’s Contribution to Native Communities
2) Nadia Jackinsky Sethi, PhD, Alutiiq Art Historian presents Remembering Heritage through the Arts in Alaska’s Communities
3) Kathryn Bunn, Marcuse, PhD, Art Historian, Kaleb Child, Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations educator, Coreen Child, Kwakiutl First Nation, and Tom Child, Kwakiutl First Nation Lands and Resource Manager present G̱a̱lg̱a̱poła (Working Together) – A Collaborative Reframing of Kwakiutl Film and Audio Recordings with Franz Boas, 1930.
This symposium was made possible by support from the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington. Recorded March 28, 2015 at the University of Washington’s Kane Hall.
Jet boat crossing Hecate Strait
Crossing Hecate Strait in a jet boat
Haida Gwaii
Haida Gwaii, formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands and the Charlottes, is an archipelago on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Approximately half of its population is of the Haida people.
The islands are separated from the British Columbia mainland to the east by Hecate Strait. Vancouver Island lies to the south, across Queen Charlotte Sound, while the U.S. state of Alaska is to the north, across the disputed Dixon Entrance.
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Alaska | Wikipedia audio article
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Alaska ( ( listen); Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaskaq; Russian: Аляска, translit. Alyaska) is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the
seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
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Alaska
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Alaska ( ( listen); Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaskaq; Russian: Аляска, translit. Alyaska) is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the
seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
Juneau, Alaska | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:42 1 History
00:05:18 1.1 European encounters
00:06:14 1.2 Mining era
00:07:57 1.3 Establishment of Russian Orthodox Church
00:09:01 1.4 Development of mining
00:09:58 1.5 20th and 21st centuries
00:14:43 2 Geography
00:16:15 2.1 Adjacent boroughs and census areas
00:16:33 2.2 Border area
00:16:56 2.3 National protected areas
00:17:17 2.4 Climate
00:20:07 3 Demographics
00:23:28 4 Economy
00:27:02 5 Culture
00:28:33 6 Government
00:31:59 7 Education
00:32:08 7.1 Primary and secondary schools
00:32:42 7.2 Colleges and universities
00:33:21 8 Transportation
00:33:48 8.1 Sea
00:34:36 8.2 Air
00:36:07 8.3 Roads
00:36:47 8.3.1 Juneau Access Project
00:38:37 8.4 Public transportation
00:38:51 8.5 Walking, hiking, and biking
00:39:20 9 Infrastructure
00:39:29 9.1 Healthcare
00:40:00 10 Utilities
00:40:20 11 Media
00:40:28 11.1 Print
00:40:54 11.2 Radio
00:41:51 11.3 Television
00:42:36 12 Sister cities
00:43:08 13 See also
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The City and Borough of Juneau ( JOO-noh; Tlingit: Dzánti K'ihéeni [ˈtsántʰì kʼìˈhíːnì]), commonly known as Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. It is a unified municipality on Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle, and it is the second largest city in the United States by area. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current municipality, which is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware.
Downtown Juneau (58°18′07″N 134°25′11″W) is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of the 2010 census, the City and Borough had a population of 31,276. In 2014, the population estimate from the United States Census Bureau was 32,406, making it the second most populous city in Alaska after Anchorage. Fairbanks, however, is the state's second most populous metropolitan area, with roughly 100,000 residents. Juneau's daily population can increase by roughly 6,000 people from visiting cruise ships between the months of May and September.
The city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau, though the place was for a time called Rockwell and then Harrisburg (after Juneau's co-prospector, Richard Harris). The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántik'i Héeni (Base of the Flounder’s River, dzánti ‘flounder,’ –kʼi ‘base,’ héen ‘river’), and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Áak'w (Little lake, áa ‘lake,’ -kʼ ‘diminutive’) in Tlingit. The Taku River, just south of Juneau, was named after the cold t'aakh wind, which occasionally blows down from the mountains.
Juneau is unusual among U.S. capitals (except Honolulu, Hawaii) in that there are no roads connecting the city to the rest of Alaska or to the rest of North America (although ferry service is available for cars). The absence of a road network is due to the extremely rugged terrain surrounding the city. This in turn makes Juneau a de facto island city in terms of transportation, since all goods coming in and out must go by plane or boat, in spite of the city being on the Alaskan mainland. Downtown Juneau sits at sea level, with tides averaging 16 feet (5 m), below steep mountains about 3,500 feet (1,100 m) to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) high. Atop these mountains is the Juneau Icefield, a large ice mass from which about 30 glaciers flow; two of these, the Mendenhall Glacier and the Lemon Creek Glacier, are visible from the local road system. The Mendenhall glacier has been gradually retreating; its front face is declining in width and height.
The Alaska State Capitol in downtown Juneau was built as the Federal and Territorial Building in 1931. Prior to statehood, it housed federal government offices, the f ...
Alaska | Wikipedia audio article
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Alaska
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Alaska ( (listen); Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaskaq; Russian: Аляска, translit. Alyaska) is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the
seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
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