Announcements Archives - Bering Straits

BSNC and Get Out The Native Vote (GOTNV) encourages Alaska Native people to get out and vote. Voters help determine who is represented in local government, which determines which bills, ordinances and legislation is passed. Voting for who you believe will serve your community and your state best will help ensure a better life for...

BSNC shareholder Esther Koezuna serves as the corporation’s Anchorage office receptionist. In addition to serving as the first individual people interact with at BSNC, Koezuna is a traditional culture-bearer. She grew up in the King Island community of Nome and today, regularly shares her traditional knowledge with summer interns and recently, in BSNC’s new cultural...

BSNC congratulates shareholder Roy Apaagzuk Agloinga on receiving the 2021 Governor’s Arts and Humanities Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities through education. Agloinga grew up in Natchirsvik (White Mountain) and continues to work with the remaining fluent speakers of the Iġałuik dialect of Qawairaq Inupiaq. Agloinga and other volunteer community members spent countless hours working...

BSNC shareholder and poet Roberta “Buffy” McKay recently had her poetry titled Salt & Roses published by Cirque Press. In Salt & Roses, McKay looks hard at life across a range of free verse, villanelles and haikus. McKay, who is of Inupiaq and Scottish descent, enjoys writing about memory, time and place and has written...