Supporting Iñupiaq Arts And Education

Uvaŋa atiġa Asiqłuq. Aapaga Sanguk. Aanaga Aileen-mi. Aakaga Ahnakosoklu suli Mary-milu. Avauraġa Fred-milu suli Edgar-milu. Qawiaraġmiuruŋa.   My Iñupiaq name is Asiqłuq. My parents are (the late) Aileen and Clifford Sanguk Topkok (from Teller, Alaska). My...

Old Songs New Opportunities

Erie, Pennsylvania, is a Rust Belt city of about 100,000 in the Great Lakes region. Although we have a relatively small resettled  refugee  community, refugees  represent about 11 percent of our population, one of the highest percentages in the nation. The refugee...

Inspired Learning

by Betty J. Belanus and Charmaine Branch Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~W. B. Yeats Introduction Inspired learning can happen anywhere—at school, in a museum exhibition, at a public program, even in your own kitchen or backyard....