Yup'ik Masks - The Unexpected Legacy of Sheldon Jackson - Tim Troll

Tim Toll has served for the past twenty years as Executive Director of the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust, an organization he helped start in Dillingham in 2000.  Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the land trust owns or holds conservation easements on 58,412 acres in Bristol Bay and helped broker protection for 21,320 acres in the Wood Tikchik State Park. Tim came to Alaska in 1978 as a VISTA volunteer lawyer for Alaska Legal Services in Bethel.  From 1980 to 1985, he was the city manager of St. Mary's, where he helped the Lower Yukon region revitalize Yup'ik Dancing. The Alaska Federation of Natives honored Tim with its Denali Award in 2019.

Tim's slides can be found here -  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7dtqooc40zbsvajpmbzum/Sitka-SJ-Presentation-AUUF2.pdf?rlkey=jyljnsb121gs507mjf3aw5oz6&dl=0

Slide #7 is a video. To start the video, "click" on the speaker on the slide.

There is another video that Tim mentioned. It can be found here - https://aifg.arizona.edu/film/dancing-people-yupiit-yuraryarait

Mel Langdon Stewardship video - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l7cihifkirlwafcsnsd5m/04_February16_MelLangdon.mp4?rlkey=ipnxa7jz16tsqjztglneu2s4t&dl=0

Note that Mel's Stewardship video starts about 1'15" into the podcast and has been replaced (in the podcast) by 3 seconds of static.