Please join us at the
Alaska Native Book Fair
Friday, October 12, 2018
1 to 7 pm
ANTHC Consortium Office Building
4000 Ambassador Drive, Anchorage, Alaska
Sponsored by: Alaska Native Media Group, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and Best Beginnings
The Alaska Native Media Group will host an Alaska Native Book Fair event on Friday, October 12, 2018 in partnership with Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Best Beginnings. There are 19 Alaska Native published authors and two illustrators who will be selling and signing their books.
Best Beginning staff will be available to help young ones make their own book.
Panel discussions will be held in the Atrium.
Panel 1 – EVERYONE HAS A STORY TO TELL
4-4:45 pm
Edgar Blatchford, moderator
Panelists: Jan Harper Haines, Loretta Outwater, Willie Hensley and Dolly Hills
Panel 2 – CHILDRENS’ BOOKS – HOW THEY DIFFER
5-5:45 pm
Abbe Hensley, moderator
Panelists: Barbara Atwater, Ethan Atwater, Laurie Evans-Dinneen and Baby Raven Reads representative
Panel 3 – CAPTURING ATTENTION/GETTING PUBLISHED
6-6:45 pm
Edgar Blatchford, moderator
Panelists: Laurie Evans-Dinneen, Epicenter Press, Evan Swenson, Publication Consultants, and Flip Todd, Todd Communications
PARTICIPATING ALASKA NATIVE AUTHORS
Adams, Phyllis (Athabascan)
THE GINGERBREAD MOOSE, ALASKA BOOTS FOR CHELSEA
Atwater, Barbara Jacko and Ethan Jacko Atwater (Dena’ina Athabascan)
WALTER’S STORY
HOW THE RAVEN GOT ITS CROOKED BEAK
Brower, Britt’Nee – (Inupiat)
Iñupiaq Coloring Book
Cheney, Della (Haida/Tlingit)
WEAVING OUR WORLDS
Fast, Phyllis (Koyukon Athabascan)
HALF BEAD OF FUNDY, MIDNIGHT DRAMA
THE DIRE WOLF ALLIANCE, TEPI, THE GIRL WHO HELPED THE DEER
BRELLA AND HER UMBRELLA
Haines, Jan Harper (Koyukon Athabascan)
COLD RIVER SPIRITS
Hills, Dolly – (Yup’ik)
A MOTHER’S TEARS FOR A MISSING SON
Hensley, William (Iñupiaq)
FIFTY MILES FROM TOMORROW
Kay, Sharon Paula (Unangan Aleut)
LEARN TO WEAVE AN ATTU BASKET
*Kiana, Chris, Sr. (Iñupiaq)
ALASKA CRYING BABY, WALLY THE LOST BABY WALRUS, 100 ALASKA ESKIMO YO-YO STRATAGEMS
Light, David (Tlingit)
BROTHERS IN HARMONY, ANB
Merculieff, Ilarion Larry (Unangan Aleut)
WISDOM KEEPER: ONE MAN’S JOURNEY TO HONOR THE UNANGAN PEOPLE,
STOP TALKING: INDIGENOUS WAYS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
Outwater, Loretta (Iñupiaq)
WINTER WALK (another underway)
Senungutak, Joe (Iñupiaq)
GIVE OR TAKE A CENTURY
Sims, Beverly
OUR FUR FATHERS OF SOUTHWEST ALASKA
Starbard, Vera (Tlingit/Dena’ina)
OUR VOICES WILL BE HEARD
FIRST ALASKANS MAGAZINE
Thiele, Raina (Dena’ina Athabascan)
WEST WINGERS
Sealaska Heritage
Dawn Dinwoodie’s distribution
BABY RAVEN READS series
PARTICIPATING ALASKA NATIVE ILLUSTRATORS
Danielle Larsen (Unangan Aleut/Koyukon Athabascan/Iñupiaq)
Daniellelarsenart.com
Zack Martin (Ahtna Athabascan)
https://www.facebook.com/ZachsCreations