This Week in Native American News (10/30/2020): Run, Read, Listen, Watch, and Don't Dress Up as an Indian
October 30, 2020
RUN: Carol Seppilu Named the 2020 AFN ‘Woman of Courage’
“It is an honor and it’s my pleasure to be able to run for my people and to pray for them, when I’m out there for seven to 30 hours.” – Carol Seppilu
CAROL SEPPILU OF SAVOONGA AND NOME RUNS, she runs for her own life and for the lives of Alaska Native people. Earlier this month she completed the last of three long-distance runs on each of Nome’s roads, totaling almost 250 miles, in the name of hope and suicide prevention.
On Friday, Seppilu achieved another milestone as she was formally recognized by the Alaska Federation of Natives during the 2020 AFN Convention.
Even though she started running less than two miles at a time about six years ago, Seppilu has now run thousands of miles and completed all three of Nome’s roads earlier this season. By living out her new-found love for long distance running, Seppilu hopes to inspire others to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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LISTEN: ‘The Storyteller’ resurrects Alaska Native stories for a modern audience
A still from The Storyteller, a series of animated videos and podcast episodes of Alaska Native stories. (Koahnic Broadcast Corp)
In an effort to bring traditional Alaska Native stories to a modern audience, Koahnic Broadcast Corp and Rising Indigenous Voices Radio have been putting previously recorded oral culture stories and folk tales to animation.
It’s a 10-part series called The Storyteller, each part with a five-minute animated video and a separate podcast episode.
John Sallee is lead producer for The Storyteller series. He told Alaska Public Media’s Casey Grove that it started with audio recordings that were part of a radio series, now resurrected in animated video form.
Check out the Storyteller website here
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