Decolonizing Arctic History  6-9 April 2022

Anchorage Museum North x North Summit and Festival

Conference and workshop organised by Arctic Voices in collaboration with Anchorage Museum

Wednesday 6 April

9.30 am coffee/tea and registration

10 am Welcome and introduction 

Julie Decker and Ingeborg Høvik 

10.15 am Beth Ginondidoy Leonard (moderator Maria Williams)

Decolonizing Language Learning and Research in the Arctic: Towards an Indigenist Methodology

11.15 am break

11.30 am Peter DuBois (moderator Charis Gullickson)

Understanding the Colonialism and Imperialism Inherent in 19th Century Mining in Alaska           

12.15 pm lunch

1.15 pm Eavan O’Dochartaigh 

Arctic Visible: Mapping the Visual Representations of Indigenous Peoples in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic

2 pm break 

2.15-3.15 pm Holly Mititquq Nordlum, artist talk.

Thursday 7 April 

9.30 am coffee/tea

10 am Sven Haakanson (moderator Ingeborg Høvik)

Celebrating our Living Cultures through collections and historical accounts

11 am break

11.15 am Charis Gullickson

“Stepping down” Roald Amundsen

12 pm break

12.15 pm Raisa Porsanger, 

Artist talk (video presentation)

12.45 pm Jérémie McGowan

            Design Disruptions (video presentation) 

1.15 pm lunch

2.15-3.45 pm Panel discussion: Decolonizing the museum – connected concerns and practices

Sven Haakanson, Charis Gullickson, Aaron Leggett, Monica Shaa, Julie Decker (moderator)

Friday 8 April 

9.30 am coffee/tea 

10 am Holly Miowak Guise (moderator Maria Williams)

            Defining a Colonial Arctic and Toward a Decolonial Arctic  

11 am break

11.15 am Sigfrid Kjeldaas (moderator Ingeborg Høvik)

“The beaver does everything to perfection”: knowledge about animals that scientifically-bent explorers and fur traders of the late 18th century Canadian North did not know or care about

12 pm break

12.15 pm Henning H. Wærp

The Human – animal Relation in Otto Sverdrup’s New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions (1903)

1 pm Lunch + Future Line Dance with Aku Matu  

Let's co-create a line dance that will be popular in the future. We choose the moves, and practice them – together!  

Venue: the Atrium

2.15-3 pm Sophie Gilmartin

Indigenous Arctic Exploration 

Saturday 9 April

9.30 am coffee/tea

10 am Lena Klein 

The Russian-American Telegraph Expediton and the Co-Yukon

10.45 am break

11 am Axl Jeremiassen and Ingeborg Høvik

Drawing from Contact Zones: Inughuit experience, knowledge and aesthetics 

11.45 pm lunch

 12.45 pm Panel discussion: Twenty-first century Indigenous Perspectives on Alaska History

Beth Ginondidoy Leonard, Peter DuBois, Holly Miowak Guise, Haliehana Stepetin, Maria Shaa Tlaá Williams (moderator)

2.15 pm break

 2.30-4.30 pm Tiina Portti and Ingeborg Høvik

(For participants in the symposium only) Exhibition workshop