Race in Alaska: Share your Story
How would you describe your personal story as it relates to the current state of racism in Alaska today? What solutions or policies need to be addressed to ensure racial equity for all Alaskans?
Tell us your story.
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Meet the Dialogue Participants

Dialogue Agreements
The Alaska Native Dialogues on Racial Equity approach to hosting conversations is born from the value of having meaningful and sometimes difficult conversations using indigenous principles and values.
Participants in individual dialogues were asked to approach the conversation within the parameters of the agreements chosen by the hosts.
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Additional Video Conversations
In addition to the inner circle conversation included in the broadcast, participants also engaged in small group discussion of a series of powerful questions.
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Making a Long Term Commitment to to Racial Healing
Elizabeth Medicine Crow of the First Alaskans Institute helps Alaska address racism by promoting dialogue.
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On Racial Healing
As a child, Liz Hensley grew up in a household where she wasn't made aware that she was different. It wasn't until she was 15 and had moved to Anchorage that she first felt the sting of racism and made to feel like an outsider.
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Conversations that Matter: Teen Suicide Audience Commentary
Suicide is difficult to talk about. But often, the conversations most worth having are the hardest to tackle. With Conversations that Matter: Teen Suicide in Alaska, we hope to take a step towards an open, statewide dialog on this important issue.
Following the live studio recording of the program, there was an opportunity for audience commentary and questions. Each video is a segment of that conversation.
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Suicide is Preventable.

The Importance of a Healthy Lifestyle

The Winter Bear Project
The Winter Bear is a play about an abused, neglected Alaska Native teenager who decides suicide is his best option until Athabascan elder Sidney Huntington shows him how to use traditional culture to work through his despair and find his true voice.
We have performed for enthusiastic audiences in Fairbanks, Galena and Anchorage. After every show, people tell us heart-wrenching stories about the terrible toll suicide is extracting from their lives and beg us to bring the play’s message of hope to their communities. That’s what we’d like to do.
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Ms. Camai Taking On Rural Suicide

Suicide is Never Over
