Alaska Native Knowledge Network

Calling Alaska Native organizations: The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies who houses the Alaska Native Knowledge Network is submitting a proposal to update the ANKN and Alaskool websites and ANKN Server. We need letters of support. Please message us for more details.

Here is a reminder that we are keeping a list of Alaska Native PhDs and EdDs.

Alaska Natives Earned Doctorate Alaska Native Knowledge Network Resources for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing. Alaska Native Earned Research (Ph.D. or Ed.D.) Graduates Original list of 56 graduates was created by Dr. Jessica Bissett Perea,10/20...

Happy Elizabeth Peratrovich Day.

Here is a reminder that we continue to maintain a list of Alaska Native PhDs and EdDs. At the bottom of the list is a form to submit anyone who should be added to the list.

Alaska Natives Earned Doctorate

Happy Elizabeth Peratrovich Day.

(PC: Asikłuk taken in Juneau, AK)

Nominations sought for 2024
AOK Indigenous Scholar Award
Deadline for Nominations is March 1, 2024

In recognition of Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley's inimitable role in articulating the significance of Indigenous knowledge systems, ways of knowing and worldviews in the contemporary world, the Alaska Native Knowledge Network has established the AOK Indigenous Scholar Award in his honor. The Award will be presented annually to recognize and encourage Indigenous scholars who have made exemplary contributions to our understanding of Indigenous knowledge systems and Native ways of knowing in Alaska. Nominations of potential candidates, including background information, should be forwarded to the Alaska Native Knowledge Network at [email protected] or submitted online at https://forms.gle/iSd63xFWqDqMiDJg9 . Deadline for nominations is March 1, 2024

Here is a reminder that we continue to maintain a list of Alaska Native PhDs and EdDs. At the bottom of the list is a form to submit anyone who should be added to the list.

Alaska Natives Earned Doctorate Alaska Native Knowledge Network Resources for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing. Alaska Native Earned Research (Ph.D. or Ed.D.) Graduates Original list of 56 graduates was created by Dr. Jessica Bissett Perea,10/20...

The 2023 WINHEC AGM registration went live yesterday. We look forward to seeing you in Fairbanks, Alaska, this summer:

2023 World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC) 2023 World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC), and World Indigenous Nations University (WINU) Annual General Membership Meeting.

The next (World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education) will be in Aotearoa (New Zealand) in 2025.

LImited t-shirts.

Center for Cross-Cultural Studies/ANKN

Coming soon at Alaska Native Knowledge Network - t-shirts with specific Ravens from our logo.

Vivian Yéilk’ Mork is recognized as the 2022 Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley Scholar.

Vivian Mork was a student of Dr. Kawagley in the Masters in Cross Cultural Studies program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she was among the first students to receive a M.A. in Cross Cultural Studies with an emphasis in Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Dr. Kawagley encouraged Vivian to pursue her dreams despite the fact she didn’t fit into a Western scholarly box as an independent multi-disciplinary scholar and artist.

After Dr. Kawagley died (2011), Vivian Mork wanted to continue Dr. Kawagley’s legacy of scholarly work and encouraging others, so she
co-founded Planet Alaska, a cross-cultural business dedicated to disseminating Indigenous news and topics, environmental issues, Indigenous language revitalization, and showcasing Alaskan writers and artists. Planet Alaska is dedicated to her mentor and teacher
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley.

Planet Alaska is many things. It is many things because as Indigenous people we are diverse with many complex layers. Planet Alaska’s business model is a business with the purpose of perpetuating culture. As Indigenous people we wear many hats in our communities and walk in many worlds. We use a portion of our online sales to perpetuate the classes we teach on traditional ecological knowledge, language, history, culture, and more. Classes are taught online, in person, and Planet Alaska has numerous articles uplifting Indigenous knowledge under the column with the same name in the Juneau Empire, Capital City Weekly, and the Planet Alaska blog. There is a Planet Alaska page, blog, website, twitter, instagram, and TikTok account. A Planet Alaska Patreon and YouTube channel to come soon sharing and uplifting the diverse cultures, languages, history, peoples, botany and ecology of Alaska.

Pictured is Vivian Yéilk’ Mork receiving the AOK Scholar Award in Sitka, Alaska, April 16, 2022.