Tukuuludaa advances to semi-finals of movement fund grant

This October we submitted a grant application to Native Movement's movement fund to go to Sápmi for a cultural and educational exchange with Sámi Indigenous artists and crafters specializing in reindeer skin and fur. We learned last week that our application is now a semi-finalist for grant funding.

We are planning to implement what we would learn from this educational and artistic training trip in a reindeer and seal fur crafting culture camp and community fashion show on St. Paul Island. When we finalized the idea for a reindeer and seal fur crafting culture camp and community fashion show, we published a survey on our Tukuuludax̂ facebook page to see what interest existed, we were floored to see over 20 expressions of interested from our community members in this culture camp and fashion show.

Our long term goal is to create a curriculum and set of designs with instructions based on the outcomes of our reindeer culture camp and what we learned during our research and Indigenous knowledge exchange trip to Sápmi that we will share with other parts of the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands chain as well as and Western Alaska.

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