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Chugachmiut received a $249,636 Tribal Climate Resiliency award from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This funding will support the creation of a Tribal Climate Justice Commission to guide the growth of Chugachmiut’s climate education initiatives. This Commission, led by Chugach Tribal leadership, will play a vital role in integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with climate science to foster new approaches to understanding and addressing climate challenges.

The Chugachmiut Tribal Education Department will manage the grant and will support the development of its education and leadership programs by emphasizing the harmony between TEK and climate science. Commission members and regional leaders will convene in Anchorage to study and address climate issues in our communities. Their work will include analyzing existing research, collecting new data, and preparing a strategic report to identify opportunities for advancing climate education.

Elders will play a central role as knowledge-keepers and advisors, ensuring that cultural wisdom and traditional practices guide our climate resiliency efforts. This approach honors the fundamental connection between Indigenous knowledge and environmental stewardship.

Chugachmiut will also collaborate with organizations and partners who have recently completed climate resiliency studies, leveraging their insights and expertise for the commission’s success. Upon completing this project, Chugachmiut may qualify for additional funding opportunities as part of a broader effort to secure federal and state climate justice grants.

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Winter Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter

  • Career Opportunities
  • Chugach Regional Writers
  • Christmas Card Design Contest Winners
  • Community Spotlight – Nicole Norman
  • FCC Licenses for Port Graham and Nanwalek
  • Fire Crew Tree Cookies
  • Fred Meyer Community Rewards
  • Health Services Division News
  • Jason Williams Appointment
  • Mark Hiratsuka Receives ILI Award
  • Nunaka Wins an Anthem Award
  • Realty Hosted Trust Manager’s Meeting
  • Scholarship and Vocational Support

📸About the Cover: Quyanaa to everyone who joined us for the Chenega Health Fair in October! This fall, we enjoyed connecting with community members at health fairs in Nanwalek and Chenega. Photo by Angela Gonzalez.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org. To submit ideas, articles, stories, poetry, and pictures for use in the Nupuat, please email media@Chugachmiut.org. Call for submissions.

View previous editions here.

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Winter Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Winter Edition

  • Career Opportunities
  • Behavioral Health Crisis Line
  • Llangcarwik Recovery Camp
  • Burial Assistance Resources
  • Memorial Day Event by Chugach Arts Council
  • Realty Department Update
  • Kanarlluk Bear Gut Raincoat Workshop & 2024 Statewide Elders & Youth Council Representatives Elected
  • Celebrate 50 Years with Chugachmiut
  • Nunaka: My Village Wins Again
  • Story Submission – Our Beloved Red Salmon By Mandy Wood
  • Trust & Land Management Division
  • Health Services Division News
  • Christmas Card Design Contest
  • Employee Spotlight
  • Money Monday Newsletter

📸About the Cover: Crew members on an integrated team from Denali Wildland Fire Module and Yukon Fire Crew were working on a tower while on assignment in Delta over the summer. Pictured: Apachi Rivers (underneath tower), Keenan Lacy (on ladder), Gavin Bennett (holding ladder at left), Ernest David (holding ladder at right) and Rudolf Smith – Yukon (on top of tower).

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

View previous editions here.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

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To submit ideas, articles, stories, poetry, and pictures for use in the Nupuat, please email media@Chugachmiut.org along with a short bio of yourself. Call for submissions.

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Fall Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Fall Edition

  • Career Opportunities
  • Youth Summer Camps
  • Traditional Qayaq Dedication Ceremony
  • Chugachmiut Heritage Archive Opportunity
  • Chugachmiut Birth to 5 Head Start Program
  • Chugachmiut Scholarship Opportunity
  • Housing Improvement Program
  • Poem – “No Name Mountains” by Gail Evanoff
  • Health Services Division News
  • Employee Spotlights – Brent S. Harmon and Sheila Lowe
  • Christmas Card Design Contest

📸About the Cover: Chugachmiut Heritage Preservation hosted summer camps with Accessing Choices in Education (ACE), a program that allows us to provide educational opportunities for students in our communities that are Alaska Native to meet their educational goals. The Chugachmiut Youth Summit was held in July in Anchorage where 12 youth experienced and practiced Sugpiaq language, traditional culture through Elders, recognized experts, through games, crafts, media, models, art, sea life, and plants. Here they are visiting the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Front row (left to right): Damian George, Rhoda Moonin, Ephimia Moonin-Wilson, Emma Tanape, and Imya Hernandez. 2nd row (left to right): Benjamin Kvasnikoff, Kenji Simmons, Julianne Michener, and Trinity Vlasoff. 3rd row (left to right): Mackinley Greene, Kayonte Simmons, Ashton Meganack, Trinity Vlasoff, Juanita Wood, Bella Velez, and Nancy Yeaton. Back row (far right): Iverson Moonin.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

View previous editions here.

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Summer Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Summer Edition

  • Career Opportunities
  • Step Challenge
  • Health Fairs
  • Recovery Camp
  • Fire and Forestry Programs Update
  • Education
  • Realty – Probate Process
  • Chugachmiut Regional Health Center Groundbreaking
  • Qutekcak Native Tribe Celebration
  • Tatitlek Cultural Exchange
  • Qutekcak Native Tribe Technology Upgrades
  • Boating Safety
  • Nunaka Game App Released
  • Finance Team Spotlight
  • Employee Spotlight – John H. Yakanak, Jr.

📸About the Cover: Chugachmiut board members Larry Evanoff, Vice Chair, Fran Norman, Chair, and Arne Hatch, Director break ground for the Chugachmiut Regional Health Center on June 3 in Qutekcak (Seward). Chugachmiut has operated the North Star Health Clinic since 1987 in Seward but, by January 2025, the 19,475 square-foot Chugachmiut Regional Health Clinic will be constructed and operating. The Center will serve as Chugachmiut’s regional medical hub providing medical, dental, and behavioral health services for Alaskans in medically underserved areas within our region. Photo by Mackenzie Banbury.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Spring Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Spring Edition

  • Career Opportunities
  • Chugachmiut Heritage Archives
  • Spotlight on Dolly Wiles of Qutekcak Native Tribe
  • Nanwalek NYO Team
  • Accessing Choices in Education (ACE) Program Support
  • Nanwalek Head Start Internet Upgrade
  • Service Booklets
  • Realty Department
  • Scholarship Opportunity & NET Program
  • Grants Team
  • Heritage Preservation Program – Nanwalek Sugpiak Regalia Project
  • Health Services Division News
  • Graduate Highlights
  • Denali Wildland Fire Module Crew

📸About the Cover: Chugachmiut Elders and community members visited the Ethnological Museum of Berlin in Germany. The Elders and community members included William Smith of Valdez, Pamela Smith of Cordova, Eric Clock of Seward, Brandon Moonin of Tatitlek, Deborah McMullen of Port Graham, Vincent Evans of Nanwalek, and John Johnson and Tatianna Turner from Chugach Alaska Corporation. They were engaging with artifacts that were taken from the Chugachmiut communities in the late 19th century and documenting important cultural knowledge and stories.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.