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Peter Kaiser is the first Yup’ik musher to win the Iditarod. Long before competitive sled dog races, Indigenous people in Alaska and Canada maintained an important relationship with dogs. In addition to transportation over snow and ice, dogs help in subsistence hunting and protection. We’ll take time to learn more about this symbiotic relationship between dogs and Indigenous people in the north.
Guests:
Pete Kaiser (Yup’ik) – 2019 Iditarod winner and dog musher
Jennifer Probert Erhart (Upper Tanana Athabascan) – dog musher community outreach coordinator for wellness strategies for health grant at Tanana Chiefs Conference
Mike Williams Jr. (Yup’ik) – dog musher
Margaret Nakak (Inupiaq and Yup’ik) – cultural host with the Alaska Native Heritage Center
Eric Clock (Koyukon and Eyak Athabascan) – instructor at the Alaska Vocational Technical Center
Break 1 Music: Ellu’urtautanga (Sledding Song) (song) I Sing, You Dance (artist) I Am Yup’ik (album)
Break 2 Music: Hummingbird (song) The Jir Project Band (artist) The Pueblo (album)
